Repeated Transgressions Promote Costly Third-Party Punishment in 6-Year-Olds

Toda, Nazu; Toda, Rizu; Kanakogi, Yasuhiro

Social Development, 2025, 34(2), e12796

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Title
Repeated Transgressions Promote Costly Third-Party Punishment in 6-Year-Olds
Creator
CreatorName
Toda, Nazu
CreatorName
Toda, Rizu
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1000030742217 1000030742217
ORCID
0000-0003-0636-1619 0000-0003-0636-1619
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7000008067 7000008067
Scopus Author ID
36102980500 36102980500
CreatorName
Kanakogi, Yasuhiro
Subject
behavioral prediction
development
recidivism
third-party punishment
trait attribution
Description
Toda N., Toda R., Kanakogi Y.. Repeated Transgressions Promote Costly Third-Party Punishment in 6-Year-Olds. Social Development 34, e12796 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12796.
Abstract
Individuals across cultures believe repeat offenders deserve greater punishment than first-time offenders, which is also widely accepted in today's judicial system. Although previous studies indicate that children consider the transgressor's past behaviors, the effect of repeated transgressions on costly third-party punishment remains unknown. We aimed to investigate the effects of repeated transgressions on third-party punishment in 6-year-olds. We created two within-subjects conditions: first-time and repeated conditions, where the transgressor had transgressed for the first time, and the transgression had been repeated, respectively. In Study 1, children (N = 43) were allowed to punish the transgressor at a personal cost. We found that more children engaged in punishment in the repeated condition than in the first-time condition. In Study 2, we examined the effect of repeated transgressions on trait attributions and behavioral predictions regarding the transgressor with an additional group of 6-year-olds (N = 43). Results revealed that repeated transgressions significantly affected behavioral prediction but did not affect trait attribution regarding the transgressor compared with the first-time condition. These results suggest that 6-year-olds can administer punishment and predict a transgressor's recidivism based on the frequency information of the transgression. Our findings demonstrate that from the early stages of punitive behavior development, humans believe that repeat offenders should be strictly punished.
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
Source Title
Social Development
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34(2)
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e12796
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2025-03-15
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English
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https://hdl.handle.net/11094/100960
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0961205X
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14679507
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https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12796
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