TY - JOUR
T1 - Ideas versus labor
T2 - What do children value in artistic creation?
AU - Li, Vivian
AU - Shaw, Alex
AU - Olson, Kristina R.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the Social Cognitive Development lab for critical discussions on this paper, and Paul Bloom, Laurie Santos and Gregory Mandel for helpful comments. We would also like to thank Anna Merrill, Kristi Leimgruber, Suzanne Horwitz, Alia Martin, Matt Choy, Arianne Eason, Adam Hoffman, Vanessa Calderon, Alex Chituc, Winnie Huang, and Melanie Fox who helped to run the participants in these studies. This research is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant #1004797 and does not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - As scientists, we primarily award authorship, as well as legal patents, to those who generate ideas, often without formally crediting others who executed the actual experiments. However, little is known about how and when people come to value ideas. Here, we investigate whether young children also value ideas over labor. In Study 1, we found that 4 and 6. year olds preferred pictures containing their ideas to those containing their labor. In Study 2 we rule out an alternative explanation-that children simply favor pictures containing their idiosyncratic preferences-by discovering that 6. year olds, but not 4. year olds chose a picture they mistakenly believed contained their idea, over a picture that contained their idiosyncratic preferences. Consistent with these results, using a third-party design in Study 3, we found that 6. year olds, but not 4. year olds favored a person who only contributed an idea over another who only contributed labor in awarding ownership. Across three studies, these results suggest that by 6. years old, children value ideas over labor.
AB - As scientists, we primarily award authorship, as well as legal patents, to those who generate ideas, often without formally crediting others who executed the actual experiments. However, little is known about how and when people come to value ideas. Here, we investigate whether young children also value ideas over labor. In Study 1, we found that 4 and 6. year olds preferred pictures containing their ideas to those containing their labor. In Study 2 we rule out an alternative explanation-that children simply favor pictures containing their idiosyncratic preferences-by discovering that 6. year olds, but not 4. year olds chose a picture they mistakenly believed contained their idea, over a picture that contained their idiosyncratic preferences. Consistent with these results, using a third-party design in Study 3, we found that 6. year olds, but not 4. year olds favored a person who only contributed an idea over another who only contributed labor in awarding ownership. Across three studies, these results suggest that by 6. years old, children value ideas over labor.
KW - Cognitive development
KW - Ideas
KW - Intellectual property
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.11.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.11.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 23321491
AN - SCOPUS:84872442113
SN - 0010-0277
VL - 127
SP - 38
EP - 45
JO - Cognition
JF - Cognition
IS - 1
ER -