Journal
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Volume 30, Issue -, Pages 81-95Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2014.01.003
Keywords
Social norms; Moral development; Normative language
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Children's lives are governed by social norms. Since Piaget, however, it has been assumed that they understand very little about how norms work. Recent studies in which children enforce social norms indicate a richer understanding, but children are still relating to pre-existing adult norms. In this study, triads of 5-year-olds worked on an instrumental task without adult guidance. Children spontaneously created social norms regarding how the game should be played. They transmitted these with special force (using more generic and objective language) to novices, suggesting that young children understand to some degree, the conventional nature and special force of social norms in binding all who would participate. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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