ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
Toddlers Selectively Help Fair Agents.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Core Moral Concepts and the Sense of Fairness in Human Infants.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2025Review
- Helpers or halos: examining the evaluative mechanisms underlying selective prosociality.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Editorial: Nature and determinants of socio-moral development: theories, methods and applications.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Toddlers draw broad negative inferences from wrongdoers' moral violations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Is Defensive Behavior a Subtype of Prosocial Behaviors?Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Scaling of Early Social Cognitive Skills in Typically Developing Infants and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- Infants Consider the Distributor's Intentions in Resource Allocation.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Toddlers and infants expect individuals to refrain from helping an ingroup victim's aggressor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Do Infants Attribute Moral Traits? Fourteen-Month-Olds' Expectations of Fairness Are Affected by Agents' Antisocial Actions.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Previous research showed that infants and toddlers are inclined to help prosocial agents and assign a positive valence to fair distributions. Also, they expect that positive and negative actions directed toward distributors will conform to reciprocity principles. This study investigates whether toddlers are selective in helping others, as a function of others' previous distributive actions. Toddlers were presented with real-life events in which two actresses distributed resources either equally or unequally between two puppets. Then, they played together with a ball that accidentally fell to the ground and asked participants to help them to retrieve it. Participants preferred to help the actress who performed equal distributions. This finding suggests that by the second year children's prosocial actions are modulated by their emerging sense of fairness. HIGHLIGHTS: Toddlers (mean age = 25 months) are selective in helping distributors. Toddlers prefer helping a fair rather than an unfair distributor. Toddlers' selective helping provides evidence for an early sense of fairness.
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