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Does the dealing strategy that is widely used by young children in clinical interviews occur in less structured situations? Does dealing to establish fair shares occur, for example, when young children perceive a need in their play activities to distribute discrete items evenly? Or is the dealing strategy largely an artifact of structured clinical interviews? In this short chapter we will give some evidence that spontaneous sharing by dealing is, like the bark of the Hound of the Baskervilles, conspicuous by its absence.
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Davis, G., Hunting, R.P. (1991). Preschoolers’ Spontaneous Partitioning of Discrete Items. In: Hunting, R.P., Davis, G. (eds) Early Fraction Learning. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3194-3_8
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