ReviewFrontiers in psychology2018
Means-Inference as a Source of Variability in Early Helping.
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- The Factors Influencing Children's Helping Behavior: The Roles of Cognition and Empathy Concern.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Competence-based helping: Children's consideration of need when providing others with help.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Humans, as compared to their primate relatives, readily act on behalf of others: we help, inform, share resources with, and provide emotional comfort for others. Although these prosocial behaviors emerge early in life, some types of prosocial behaviors seem to emerge earlier than others, and some tasks elicit more reliable helping than others. Here we discuss existing perspectives on the sources of variability in early prosocial behaviors with a particular focus on the variability within the domain of instrumental helping. We suggest that successful helping behavior not only requires an understanding of others' goals (goal-inference), but also the ability to figure out
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