Developmental asymmetries in learning to adjust to cooperative and uncooperative environments

Abstract Learning to successfully navigate social environments is a critical developmental goal, predictive of long-term wellbeing. However, little is known about how people learn to adjust to different social environments, and how this behaviour emerges across development. Here, we use a series of...

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Autores principales:	Bianca Westhoff, Lucas Molleman, Essi Viding, Wouter van den Bos, Anna C. K. van Duijvenvoorde
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2020
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b869419270cc4bb6b0f3014597ae7a7c2021-12-02T11:43:36ZDevelopmental asymmetries in learning to adjust to cooperative and uncooperative environments10.1038/s41598-020-78546-12045-2322https://doaj.org/article/b869419270cc4bb6b0f3014597ae7a7c2020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78546-1https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Learning to successfully navigate social environments is a critical developmental goal, predictive of long-term wellbeing. However, little is known about how people learn to adjust to different social environments, and how this behaviour emerges across development. Here, we use a series of economic games to assess how children, adolescents, and young adults learn to adjust to social environments that differ in their level of cooperation (i.e., trust and coordination). Our results show an asymmetric developmental pattern: adjustment requiring uncooperative behaviour remains constant across adolescence, but adjustment requiring cooperative behaviour improves markedly across adolescence. Behavioural and computational analyses reveal that age-related differences in this social learning are shaped by age-related differences in the degree of inequality aversion and in the updating of beliefs about others. Our findings point to early adolescence as a phase of rapid change in cooperative behaviours, and highlight this as a key developmental window for interventions promoting well-adjusted social behaviour.Bianca WesthoffLucas MollemanEssi VidingWouter van den BosAnna C. K. van DuijvenvoordeNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2020)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Bianca Westhoff Lucas Molleman Essi Viding Wouter van den Bos Anna C. K. van Duijvenvoorde Developmental asymmetries in learning to adjust to cooperative and uncooperative environments
description	Abstract Learning to successfully navigate social environments is a critical developmental goal, predictive of long-term wellbeing. However, little is known about how people learn to adjust to different social environments, and how this behaviour emerges across development. Here, we use a series of economic games to assess how children, adolescents, and young adults learn to adjust to social environments that differ in their level of cooperation (i.e., trust and coordination). Our results show an asymmetric developmental pattern: adjustment requiring uncooperative behaviour remains constant across adolescence, but adjustment requiring cooperative behaviour improves markedly across adolescence. Behavioural and computational analyses reveal that age-related differences in this social learning are shaped by age-related differences in the degree of inequality aversion and in the updating of beliefs about others. Our findings point to early adolescence as a phase of rapid change in cooperative behaviours, and highlight this as a key developmental window for interventions promoting well-adjusted social behaviour.
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author	Bianca Westhoff Lucas Molleman Essi Viding Wouter van den Bos Anna C. K. van Duijvenvoorde
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title	Developmental asymmetries in learning to adjust to cooperative and uncooperative environments
title_short	Developmental asymmetries in learning to adjust to cooperative and uncooperative environments
title_full	Developmental asymmetries in learning to adjust to cooperative and uncooperative environments
title_fullStr	Developmental asymmetries in learning to adjust to cooperative and uncooperative environments
title_full_unstemmed	Developmental asymmetries in learning to adjust to cooperative and uncooperative environments
title_sort	developmental asymmetries in learning to adjust to cooperative and uncooperative environments
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Developmental asymmetries in learning to adjust to cooperative and uncooperative environments

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