All Outputs (15)

The influence of collaboration and culture on the IKEA effect: Does cocreation alter perceptions of value in British and Indian children? (2022)
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Creating objects can increase our evaluation of them, even when we compare them to physically identical copies (IKEA effect). Here we evaluate the influence of collaboration on the IKEA effect in two societies – the UK and India. 128 5-to-6-year-old... Read More about The influence of collaboration and culture on the IKEA effect: Does cocreation alter perceptions of value in British and Indian children?.

Considering self or others across two cultural contexts: How children’s resource allocation is affected by self-construal manipulations (2019)
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Most humans share to some degree. Yet, from middle childhood, sharing behavior varies substantially across societies. Here, for the first time, we explored the effect of self-construal manipulation on sharing decisions in 7- and 8-year-old children f... Read More about Considering self or others across two cultural contexts: How children’s resource allocation is affected by self-construal manipulations.

Are you watching me?: the role of audience and object novelty on overimitation (2019)
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This study tests whether overimitation is subject to an audience effect, and whether it is modulated by object novelty. Eighty-six 4-to-11-year old children watched a demonstrator open novel and familiar boxes, using sequences of necessary and unnece... Read More about Are you watching me?: the role of audience and object novelty on overimitation.

Thinking of me: Self-focus reduces sharing and helping in seven- to eight-year-olds (2018)
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By 7-to 8-years of age, most children readily adhere to prosocial norms aimed at benefiting others through giving up time and effort (helping) or resources (sharing). Two studies explored whether sharing and helping by 7-to 8-year olds (N = 180) coul... Read More about Thinking of me: Self-focus reduces sharing and helping in seven- to eight-year-olds.

When and how does labour lead to love? The ontogeny and mechanisms of the IKEA effect (2017)
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We elevate our constructions to a special status in our minds. This ‘IKEA’ effect leads us to believe that our creations are more valuable than items that are identical, but constructed by another. This series of studies utilises a developmental pers... Read More about When and how does labour lead to love? The ontogeny and mechanisms of the IKEA effect.

The imitation game: effects of social cues on 'imitation' are domain-general in nature (2016)
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Imitation has been hailed as ‘social glue’, facilitating rapport with others. Previous studies suggest that social cues modulate imitation but the mechanism of such modulation remains underspecified. Here we examine the locus, specificity, and neural... Read More about The imitation game: effects of social cues on 'imitation' are domain-general in nature.

Picture yourself: self-focus and the endowment effect in preschool children (2016)
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When an object comes into possession, the owner will typically think that it is worth more than it did before they owned the item in a bias known as the endowment effect. This bias is particularly robust in Western societies with independent self-con... Read More about Picture yourself: self-focus and the endowment effect in preschool children.

Cognitive Mechanisms underlying visual perspective taking in typical and ASC children (2015)
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Previous research has suggested that people with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) may have difficulty with visual perspective taking (VPT) but it is not clear how this relates to different strategies that can be used in perspective taking tasks. The... Read More about Cognitive Mechanisms underlying visual perspective taking in typical and ASC children.

Responses to irrational actions in action observation and mentalising networks of the human brain (2014)
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By observing other people, we can often infer goals and motivations behind their actions. This study examines the role of the action observation network (AON) and the mentalising network (MZN) in the perception of rational and irrational actions. Pas... Read More about Responses to irrational actions in action observation and mentalising networks of the human brain.

Spatial transformations of bodies and objects in adults with autism spectrum disorder (2014)
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Previous research into autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has shown people with autism to be impaired at visual perspective taking. However it is still unclear to what extent the spatial mechanisms underlying this ability contribute to these difficulties... Read More about Spatial transformations of bodies and objects in adults with autism spectrum disorder.

Predictive gaze during observation of irrational actions in adults with autism spectrum conditions (2014)
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Understanding irrational actions may require the observer to make mental state inferences about why an action was performed. Individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) have well documented difficulties with mentalizing; however, the degree to... Read More about Predictive gaze during observation of irrational actions in adults with autism spectrum conditions.

Using other minds as a window onto the world: guessing what happened from clues in behaviour (2014)
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It has been proposed that mentalising involves retrodicting as well as predicting behaviour, by inferring previous mental states of a target. This study investigated whether retrodiction is impaired in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD)... Read More about Using other minds as a window onto the world: guessing what happened from clues in behaviour.

The social modulation of imitation fidelity in school-age children (2014)
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Children copy the actions of others with high fidelity, even when they are not causally relevant. This copying of visibly unnecessary actions is termed overimitation. Many competing theories propose mechanisms for overimitation behaviour. The present... Read More about The social modulation of imitation fidelity in school-age children.

Children with autism do not overimitate (2013)
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Copying the behaviour of others is important for forming social bonds with other people and for learning about the world [1]. After seeing an actor demonstrate actions on a novel object, typically developing (TD) children faithfully copy both necessa... Read More about Children with autism do not overimitate.

Dissociation of mirroring and mentalising systems in autism (2011)
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The role of mirror neuron systems and mentalising systems in causing poor social and communication skills in individuals with autistic spectrum conditions is hotly debated. We studied 18 adults with autistic spectrum conditions in comparison to 19 ag... Read More about Dissociation of mirroring and mentalising systems in autism.