I’m excited to post a “failed” scientific study. We formulated and tested a hypothesis that I really liked. The hypothesis was wrong. osf.io/preprints/os...@jessicas.bsky.social@ashleyjthomas.bsky.social

I love when that happens! Very cool work :)

This is a really cool finding. Very curious how the sharing expectations would differ across cultures. For instance, I could see that Turkish adults/moms prioritize sharing more with their own child over a stranger and vice versa.

The hypothesis: Participant would expect parents to give resources selectively to their own children; more than they expect children to give to their own parents. I was excited to test this corollary of a broader idea that “caregiving” is intuitively an asymmetric relationship.