Thinking of me: Self-focus reduces sharing and helping in seven- to eight-year-olds

By 7-to 8-years of age, most children readily adhere to prosocial norms aimed at benefiting others through giving up time and effort (helping) or resources (sharing). Two studies explored whether sharing and helping by 7-to 8-year olds (N = 180) could be influenced by priming children’s attention on...

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Autores principales: Weltzien, Sandra, Marsh, Lauren E., Hood, Bruce
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5761840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29320506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189752
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description By 7-to 8-years of age, most children readily adhere to prosocial norms aimed at benefiting others through giving up time and effort (helping) or resources (sharing). Two studies explored whether sharing and helping by 7-to 8-year olds (N = 180) could be influenced by priming children’s attention on themselves or their friends through a semi-structured interview. Results revealed that self-priming led to reductions in both sharing and helping compared to friendship-priming or a control condition. These findings are considered as indicative of the fragile state of prosocial behaviours at this age that can be easily shifted towards more selfish biases by simple priming.
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spelling pubmed-57618402018-01-23 Thinking of me: Self-focus reduces sharing and helping in seven- to eight-year-olds Weltzien, Sandra Marsh, Lauren E. Hood, Bruce PLoS One Research Article By 7-to 8-years of age, most children readily adhere to prosocial norms aimed at benefiting others through giving up time and effort (helping) or resources (sharing). Two studies explored whether sharing and helping by 7-to 8-year olds (N = 180) could be influenced by priming children’s attention on themselves or their friends through a semi-structured interview. Results revealed that self-priming led to reductions in both sharing and helping compared to friendship-priming or a control condition. These findings are considered as indicative of the fragile state of prosocial behaviours at this age that can be easily shifted towards more selfish biases by simple priming. Public Library of Science 2018-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5761840/ /pubmed/29320506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189752 Text en © 2018 Weltzien et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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