Friendship and Incentive Condition as Determinants of Children's Task-Oriented Social Behavior

First- and third-grade children, together with either a friend or a nonfriend (N = 88), were exposed to cooperative and competitive goal structures to assess the influence of friendship and incentive condition on task performance and social interaction. Children's performance was rewarded seque...

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Published in:Child development 1979-09, Vol.50 (3), p.878-881
Main Authors: Newcomb, Andrew F., Brady, Judith E., Hartup, Willard W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brief Reports
Children
Dyadic relations
Friendship
Games
Social behavior
Social interaction
Towers
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Summary:First- and third-grade children, together with either a friend or a nonfriend (N = 88), were exposed to cooperative and competitive goal structures to assess the influence of friendship and incentive condition on task performance and social interaction. Children's performance was rewarded sequentially as follows: phase 1-shared rewards; phase 2-"winner take all" or proportional rewards; and phase 3-shared rewards. Friendship facilitated the expressive and reciprocal components of social interaction regardless of superordinate goal structure. Friends and nonfriends did not differ in terms of performance outcome.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.2307/1128958