Children Hold Leaders Primarily Responsible, Not Entitled.

• Stavans, Maayan ^[1] ; Diesendruck, Gil
  1. [1] Central European University

     Central European University

     Hungría

     
• Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 92, Nº. 1, 2021, págs. 308-323
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Do children construe leaders as individuals whose position of power entails primarily more responsibility or more entitlement, compared with nonleaders? To address this question, 5‐year‐old children (n = 128) heard a story involving a hierarchical dyad (a leader and a nonleader) and an egalitarian dyad (two nonleaders), and then assessed protagonists' relative contributions to a collaborative endeavor (Experiments 1 and 2) or relative withdrawals from a common resource pool earned jointly (Experiment 3). Children expected a leader to contribute more toward a joint goal than its nonleader partner, and to withdraw an equal share (not more) from a common pool. Children thus gave evidence that they construed leaders as more responsible, rather than more entitled, relative to nonleaders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]