Early childhood investment impacts social decision-making four decades later

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dc.contributor.authorLuo, Yien
dc.contributor.authorHétu, Sébastienen
dc.contributor.authorLohrenz, Terryen
dc.contributor.authorHula, Andreasen
dc.contributor.authorDayan, Peteren
dc.contributor.authorRamey, Sharon L.en
dc.contributor.authorSonnier-Netto, Mary Elizabethen
dc.contributor.authorLisinski, Jonathanen
dc.contributor.authorLaConte, Stephen M.en
dc.contributor.authorNolte, Tobiasen
dc.contributor.authorFonagy, Peteren
dc.contributor.authorRahmani, Elhamen
dc.contributor.authorMontague, P. Readen
dc.contributor.authorRamey, Craig T.en
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-26T18:05:11Zen
dc.date.available2018-11-26T18:05:11Zen
dc.date.issued2018-11-20en
dc.description.abstractEarly childhood educational investment produces positive effects on cognitive and non-cognitive skills, health, and socio-economic success. However, the effects of such interventions on social decision-making later in life are unknown. We recalled participants from one of the oldest randomized controlled studies of early childhood investment—the Abecedarian Project (ABC)—to participate in well-validated interactive economic games that probe social norm enforcement and planning. We show that in a repeated-play ultimatum game, ABC participants who received high-quality early interventions strongly reject unequal division of money across players (disadvantageous or advantageous) even at significant cost to themselves. Using a multi-round trust game and computational modeling of social exchange, we show that the same intervention participants also plan further into the future. These findings suggest that high quality early childhood investment can result in long-term changes in social decision-making and promote social norm enforcement in order to reap future benefits.en
dc.description.sponsorshipWe thank Laura Bateman and Carrie Bynum for their assistance. Our extreme gratitude also goes out to the families and individuals who have participated in this work over these many years. This work was funded by a Principal Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (to P.R.M.), Virginia Tech (to P.R.M. and S.L.R.), and the FRQ-S and CIHR (to S.H.). P.F. is receipt of a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator Award (NF-SI-0514-10157). P.F. was in part supported by the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) North Thames at Barts Health NHS Trust. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, or the Department of Health. P.D. was funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation; he is currently at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07138-5en
dc.identifier.issue1en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/86161en
dc.identifier.volume9en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherNature Researchen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleEarly childhood investment impacts social decision-making four decades lateren
dc.title.serialNature Communicationsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden

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