What I want and what you want: children's thinking about the conflicts between their own desires and those of others

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Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Social & Behavioral Science
Department Psychology
Author Komolova, Mariya
Title What I want and what you want: children's thinking about the conflicts between their own desires and those of others
Date 2008-08
Description The goal of this study was to assess whether and how children carve out a personal sphere in the context of conflicts with their friends' desires and preferences. Seventy-two participants in three age groups (ages 5, 10, and 17) were interviewed about three hypothetical stories in which the main character's desires of various importance were in conflict with a friend's desires of various importance. Age differences were found - 5-year-old children made inconsistent judgments across different conditions, sometimes making self-oriented and sometimes making other-oriented choices and evaluations; 10-year-olds made predominantly other-oriented choices under all three conditions, and evaluated self-oriented choices most negatively when the desire of a friend outweighed the desire of the protagonist; and 17-year-olds distinguished strongly among the three conditions, making more self-oriented choices and evaluations when desires of both characters were of equal importance and more other-oriented choices and evaluations in the context of friend's weightier desire.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Conflict (Psychology) in children; Interpersonal relations in children
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "What I want and what you want" J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections, BF21.5 2008 .K64
Rights Management © Mariya Komolova
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Source Original: University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s18h1p