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Is young children’s helping affected by helpees’ need? Preschoolers, but not infants selectively help needy others

Infants and toddlers engage in instrumental helping, that is, help others in achieving an action-based goal. The underlying psychological mechanisms are unclear and hotly debated. The present study examined whether young children’s helping is affected by others’ need. To this end, 1.5- and 3.5-year-...

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Autor principal: Paulus, Markus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7270991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30758652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01148-8