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Description: In this project, we want to investigate the ontogeny of risky decision making across middle childhood. Doing so, we are particularly interested in how social context shapes children's inclination to risk winning/loosing obtained resources. Children from diverse cultural contexts (if possible: Hai||om, Ovambo, German) will play a game in which they can obtain candies either through individual effort (either under observation by a peer or individually) or collaboratively. In a within-subjects design, all children will be tested in each condition in four separate trials. Per trial, children can decide whether to obtain a safe reward (1 candy - safe option) or whether to risk their effort for higher stakes (either 2 or 0 candy - risky option).