Does He Need Help or Can He Help Himself? Preschool Children’s Expectations about Others’ Instrumental Helping versus Self-Helping [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 In the present study, we investigated a total of fifty-one 3.5-, 4.5-, and 5.5-year-old children’s expectations about another person’s helping behaviors.
Sunae eKim +2 more
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Better Language – Faster Helper: The Relation Between Spontaneous Instrumental Helping Action and Language Ability in Family-Reared and Institutionalized Toddlers [PDF]
Psychology in Russia: State of Art, 2021 Background. Prosocial behavior is the key component of social and interpersonal relations. One of the elements of prosociality is helping behavior, which emerges already in early childhood. Researchers have identified several domains of helping behavior:
Olga Kochukhova +5 more
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The evolutionary roots of prosociality: the case of instrumental helping [PDF]
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2018 Comparative studies with closely related primate species are crucial to understand the origins of human prosociality. One type of prosocial behaviour that probably relies on evolutionary ancient skills and motivations is instrumental helping. Recent experimental studies have shown that bonobos and chimpanzees will help others achieve their action goals.
Melis, Alicia P.
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Goal Slippage: A Mechanism for Spontaneous Instrumental Helping in Infancy? [PDF]
Topoi, 2017 In recent years, developmental psychologists have increasingly been interested in various forms of prosocial behavior observed in infants and young children—in particular comforting, sharing, pointing to provide information, and spontaneous instrumental helping.
Michael J., Szekely M.
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Individual Differences in Toddlers’ Social Understanding & Prosocial Behavior: Disposition or Socialization? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 We examined how individual differences in social understanding contribute to variability in early-appearing prosocial behavior. Moreover, potential sources of variability in social understanding were explored and examined as additional possible ...
Rebekkah Lauren Gross +5 more
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Here, There and Everywhere: Emotion and Mental State Talk in Different Social Contexts Predicts Empathic Helping in Toddlers [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 A growing body of literature suggests that parents socialize early-emerging prosocial behavior across varied contexts and in subtle yet powerful ways. We focus on discourse about emotions and mental states as one potential socialization mechanism given ...
Jesse eDrummond +4 more
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Targeted helping and cooperation in zoo-living chimpanzees and bonobos [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Directly comparing the prosocial behaviour of our two closest living relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees, is essential to deepening our understanding of the evolution of human prosociality.
Suska Nolte, Josep Call
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Do children help dogs spontaneously?
Human-Animal Interactions, 2023 Two capacities considered foundational in human cooperation are prosocial motivation and goal-reading abilities that enable helping. Children exhibit both proclivities by age 2 in interactions with other humans, but interactions with nonhuman species on ...
Rachna B. Reddy +4 more
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Young Children Help by Considering Other’s Needs [PDF]
Nesne Psikoloji Dergisi, 2018 Researches revealed that helping behaviors emerge as early as after children’s first birthday of their life. However, in young children, it is not clear whether these behaviors are performed in order to benefit other(s) or for another reasons. To study
Muhammed Şükrü AYDIN, Ezgi ACUN
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Preschoolers' Helping Motivations: Altruistic, Egoistic or Diverse?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Based on Eisenberg et al.'s model of prosocial motivations, the present study examined what motivates preschoolers to display instrumental helping and how various motivations develop during the preschool years. The participants were 477 preschoolers aged
Jian Hao, Xu Du
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