Young Children Selectively Avoid Helping People with Harmful Intentions

Autor/inn/en	Vaish, Amrisha; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael
Titel	Young Children Selectively Avoid Helping People with Harmful Intentions
Quelle	In: Child Development, 81 (2010) 6, S.1661-1669 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01500.x
Schlagwörter	Prosocial Behavior; Young Children; Moral Values; Intention; Toddlers; Adults; Helping Relationship; Child Behavior; Antisocial Behavior; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Helfende Beziehung; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	Two studies investigated whether young children are selectively prosocial toward others, based on the others' moral behaviors. In Study 1 (N = 54), 3-year-olds watched 1 adult (the actor) harming or helping another adult. Children subsequently helped the harmful actor less often than a third (previously neutral) adult, but helped the helpful and neutral adults equally often. In Study 2 (N = 36), 3-year-olds helped an actor who intended but failed to harm another adult less often than a neutral adult, but helped an accidentally harmful and a neutral adult equally often. Children's prosocial behavior was thus mediated by the intentions behind the actor's moral behavior, irrespective of outcome. Children thus selectively avoid helping those who cause--or even intend to cause--others harm. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10