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Why help others? Insights from rodent to human early childhood research
Helping behavior are actions aiming at assisting another individual in need or to relieve their distress. The occurrence of this behavior not only depends on automated physiological mechanisms, such as imitation or emotional contagion, that is, the individual’s emotion and physiological state matchi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10070705/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37025110 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1058352 |
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author | Chen, Ya-Qin Han, Shu Yin, Bin |
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description | Helping behavior are actions aiming at assisting another individual in need or to relieve their distress. The occurrence of this behavior not only depends on automated physiological mechanisms, such as imitation or emotional contagion, that is, the individual’s emotion and physiological state matching with others, but also needs motivation to sustain. From a comparative and developmental perspective, we discover that the motivation for helping behavior has a deep foundation both phylogenetically and ontogenetically. For example, empathic concern for others, relieving personal distress and the desire for social contact are universal motivations across rodents, non-human primates and human early childhoods. Therefore, a circle-layered model integrating evidences for motivation for helping behavior from rodent to human early childhood research is proposed: the inner circle contains the emotional-behavioral system and the outer circle contains the affective-cognitive system. The application of this model has significance for both behavioral neuroscience research and cultivating prosocial behavior in human society. |
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spelling | pubmed-100707052023-04-05 Why help others? Insights from rodent to human early childhood research Chen, Ya-Qin Han, Shu Yin, Bin Front Behav Neurosci Neuroscience Helping behavior are actions aiming at assisting another individual in need or to relieve their distress. The occurrence of this behavior not only depends on automated physiological mechanisms, such as imitation or emotional contagion, that is, the individual’s emotion and physiological state matching with others, but also needs motivation to sustain. From a comparative and developmental perspective, we discover that the motivation for helping behavior has a deep foundation both phylogenetically and ontogenetically. For example, empathic concern for others, relieving personal distress and the desire for social contact are universal motivations across rodents, non-human primates and human early childhoods. Therefore, a circle-layered model integrating evidences for motivation for helping behavior from rodent to human early childhood research is proposed: the inner circle contains the emotional-behavioral system and the outer circle contains the affective-cognitive system. The application of this model has significance for both behavioral neuroscience research and cultivating prosocial behavior in human society. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10070705/ /pubmed/37025110 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1058352 Text en Copyright © 2023 Chen, Han and Yin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Chen, Ya-Qin Han, Shu Yin, Bin Why help others? Insights from rodent to human early childhood research |
title | Why help others? Insights from rodent to human early childhood research |
title_full | Why help others? Insights from rodent to human early childhood research |
title_fullStr | Why help others? Insights from rodent to human early childhood research |
title_full_unstemmed | Why help others? Insights from rodent to human early childhood research |
title_short | Why help others? Insights from rodent to human early childhood research |
title_sort | why help others? insights from rodent to human early childhood research |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10070705/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37025110 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1058352 |
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