Erratum to "At what age can children initiate and execute a mutually beneficial exchange?" by Fong et al. (2025).

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Reports an error in "At what age can children initiate and execute a mutually beneficial exchange" by Frankie T. K. Fong, Kelly Kirkland, Ee Liz Puah and Daisung Jang (Developmental Psychology, 2025[Feb], Vol 61[2], 269-278; see record 2025-15658-001). The article had the incorrect open access license listed in the author note due to a processing error. The correct open access license for the article is CC BY 4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. The online version of this article has been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2025-15658-001). Using a novel exchange paradigm, we demonstrate that Australian preschool children from middle to high socioeconomic backgrounds may be capable of executing a mutually beneficial exchange. In Study 1, 3- to 5-year-old children completed a tower building task, in which they were given an opportunity to make trading choices via preset options that could allow both them and a puppet to succeed. A majority of children across age groups selected the efficient trade option over other alternatives. In Study 2, we modified the task to have less structure. With no preset options, 5-year-old children initiated an efficient exchange to a greater extent than younger children. A different task that relied on distributing desirable versus less desirable rewards (stickers) revealed a complementary pattern. The two studies shed light on the onset and developmental trajectory of a prerequisite skill for negotiation: children's capacity to initiate and execute a mutually beneficial deal, varying across different task contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).