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Forty fifth- and sixth-grade children of entrepreneurial and bureaucratic parents were faced with a simulated peer who intermittently sent threats to them during the course of a reiterated prisoner’s dilemma. One-half of each group of children was assigned to high, and one-half to low-threat credibility conditions. Irrespective of parental occupation, children responded to the cost-gain features of the situation. Entrepreneurial children cooperated more frequently than did bureaucratic children. The latter result was interpreted as indicating that entrepreneurial children are more responsive to a positive norm of reciprocity.
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This study was supported by National Science Foundation Grant GS-27059 to the second author. We are grateful to Michael Majores and Richard Stapleton for their help in analyzing the data
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Pivnick, W., Tedeschi, J.T. Parental occupation, coercive power, and behavioral compliance. Psychon Sci 26, 83–85 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335439
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