Abstract
Summary One hundred forty-four Mexican-American, Negro, and Anglo-American, five- and six-year-old “Head Start” children took part in a two-person, two-choice game in which they could cooperate or compete with another child. The 72 males and 72 females were divided into similar and dissimilar ethnic-group pairs, and immediate and delayed reward groups. The results of a series of analyses of variance indicated that (a) for females, similar ethnic pairs cooperated significantly more (p < .05) than dissimilar pairs, with the exception of Mexican-American/Negro pairs who maintained a high level of cooperation; (b) females in the three ethnic groups differed significantly (p < .01) in their amount of cooperative behavior, with Anglo-Americans competing the most; and (c) cooperative behavior was not differentially affected by the type of reinforcement used, nor did it increase as a function of trials.
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