Children's Intrinsic Motivation to Provide Help Themselves After Accidentally Harming Others.
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2016-11-01
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Little is known about the flexibility of children's prosocial motivation. Here, 2- and 3-year-old children's (n = 128) internal arousal, as measured via changes in pupil dilation, was increased after they accidentally harmed a victim but were unable to repair the harm. If they were able to repair (or if they themselves did not cause the harm and the help was provided by someone else) their arousal subsided. This suggests that children are especially motivated to help those whom they have harmed, perhaps out of a sense of guilt and a desire to reconcile with them. Young children care not only about the well-being of others but also about the relationship they have with those who depend on their help.
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Hepach, Robert, Amrisha Vaish and Michael Tomasello (2016). Children's Intrinsic Motivation to Provide Help Themselves After Accidentally Harming Others. Child Dev. 10.1111/cdev.12646 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13640.
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Michael Tomasello
Major research interests in processes of social cognition, social learning, cooperation, and communication from developmental, comparative, and cultural perspectives. Current theoretical focus on processes of shared intentionality. Empirical research mainly with human children from 1 to 4 years of age and great apes.
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