Do Storybooks with Anthropomorphized Animal Characters Promote Prosocial Behaviors in Young Children?

Autor/inn/en	Larsen, Nicole E.; Lee, Kang; Ganea, Patricia A.
Titel	Do Storybooks with Anthropomorphized Animal Characters Promote Prosocial Behaviors in Young Children?
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 21 (2018) 3, (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-7687
DOI	10.1111/desc.12590
Schlagwörter	Childrens Literature; Animals; Prosocial Behavior; Preschool Children; Child Behavior; Altruism; Interpersonal Relationship; Moral Development; Story Reading; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Moralische Entwicklung; Korrelation
Abstract	For millennia, adults have told children stories not only to entertain but also to impart important moral lessons to promote prosocial behaviors. Many such stories contain anthropomorphized animals because it is believed that children learn from anthropomorphic stories as effectively, if not better than, from stories with human characters, and thus are more inclined to act according to the moral lessons of the stories. Here we experimentally tested this belief by reading preschoolers a sharing story with either human characters or anthropomorphized animal characters. Reading the human story significantly increased preschoolers' altruistic giving but reading the anthropomorphic story or a control story decreased it. Thus, contrary to the common belief, realistic stories, not anthropomorphic ones, are better for promoting young children's prosocial behavior. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01