TY - JOUR AU - Köymen, Bahar AU - Lieven, Elena AU - Engemann, Denis AU - Rakoczy, Hannes AU - Warneken, Felix AU - Tomasello, Michael TI - Children's Norm Enforcement in Their Interactions With Peers JO - Child development VL - 85 IS - 3 SN - 0009-3920 CY - Malden, Mass. PB - Wiley-Blackwell M1 - FZJ-2013-05289 SP - 1108–1122 PY - 2013 AB - This study investigates how children negotiate social norms with peers. In Study 1, 48 pairs of 3- and 5-year-olds (N = 96) and in Study 2, 48 pairs of 5- and 7-year-olds (N = 96) were presented with sorting tasks with conflicting instructions (one child by color, the other by shape) or identical instructions. Three-year-olds differed from older children: They were less selective for the contexts in which they enforced norms, and they (as well as the older children to a lesser extent) used grammatical constructions objectifying the norms (“It works like this” rather than “You must do it like this”). These results suggested that children's understanding of social norms becomes more flexible during the preschool years. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000335786600020 C6 - pmid:24138135 DO - DOI:10.1111/cdev.12178 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/139290 ER -