TY - JOUR AU - Köymen, B. AU - Lieven, E. AU - Engemann, Denis AU - Rakoczy, H. AU - Warneken, F. AU - Tomasello, M. TI - Children’s norm enforcement in their interactions with peers. JO - Child development VL - 85 IS - 3 SN - 1467-8624 CY - Malden, Mass. PB - Wiley-Blackwell M1 - FZJ-2014-03585 SP - 1108 - 1122 PY - 2014 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:000335786600019 C6 - pmid:24148144 DO - DOI:10.1111/cdev.12173 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/154206 ER -