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Toddlers’ Prosocial Behavior: From Instrumental to Empathic to Altruistic Helping
Margarita Svetlova, Sara R. Nichols, Celia A. Brownell · 2010 · Child Development
- Children
- About 65 toddlers
- Where
- The United States
- Ages
- 18 and 30 months
- How
- Researchers tested toddlers in a lab
- What it found
- Nearly every toddler helped at some point. Comforting was much rarer at 18 months: about 1 in 8 quickly brought a sad adult something comforting, against about 2 in 3 at 30 months.
- Limits
- Small groups at two ages.