ArticleChild development2020
Asking Children to "Be Helpers" Can Backfire After Setbacks.
Article in Child development, 2020. 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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- Social sampling: Children track social choices to reason about status hierarchies.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2021Trial
- Asking young children to "do science" instead of "be scientists" increases science engagement in a randomized field experiment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Trial
- Prosocial behaviour axioms and values: Influence of gender and volunteering.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2023Article
- Links Between Adolescents' Moral Mindsets and Narratives of their Inconsistent and Consistent Moral Value Experiences.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Advancing Developmental Science via Unmoderated Remote Research with Children.Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society · 2020Article
- Stage 2 Registered Report: How subtle linguistic cues prevent unethical behaviors.F1000Research · 2020Article
- Children lose confidence in their potential to "be scientists," but not in their capacity to "do science".Developmental science · 2019Review
- Subtle Linguistic Cues Increase Girls' Engagement in Science.Psychological science · 2019Article
- Stage 1 Registered Report: How subtle linguistic cues prevent unethical behaviors.F1000Research · 2019Article
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Abstract
Describing behaviors as reflecting categories (e.g., asking children to "be helpers") has been found to increase pro-social behavior. The present studies (N = 139, ages 4-5) tested whether such effects backfire if children experience setbacks while performing category-relevant actions. In Study 1, children were asked either to "be helpers" or "to help," and then pretended to complete a series of successful scenarios (e.g., pouring milk) and unsuccessful scenarios (e.g., spilling milk while trying to pour). After the unsuccessful trials, children asked to "be helpers" had more negative attitudes. In Study 2, asking children to "be helpers" impeded children's helping behavior after they experienced difficulties while trying to help. Implications for how category labels shape beliefs and behavior are discussed.
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