Study Datasheet: Child Reciprocity After Revealed Intentions

Kayley Dotson's dataset contains experimental data on how 5-year-old children's willingness to reciprocate a prosocial act is affected by the later revelation of the benefactor's selfish or prosocial intention. The data, last updated on 2026-03-18, is from a study with 48 participants. It is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare.

Use Cases

• Analyze differences in sharing behavior based on revealed puppet intentions (Undermining vs. Prosocial condition).
• Investigate the dissociation between explicit social evaluations and reciprocal actions in children.
• Model the impact of hidden selfish intentions on subsequent prosocial behavior in early ontogeny.

Strengths

• Experimental data from 48 5-year-old children, providing a focused sample.
• Clear experimental conditions (Undermining and Prosocial) described in the study.
• Data is openly available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 11.0 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Kayley Dotson.

Collection Method

Data likely collected from a controlled experimental game with puppets.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 17:28:30; freshness should be verified.