The Emergence of Prosocial Behavior: Why Do Infants and Toddlers Help, Comfort, and Share?

By Markus Paulus. 2014

240 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Beate Sodian
2. Celia A. Brownell
3. Claudia Thoermer
4. A. Woodward
5. Markus Paulus
6. Gergely Csibra
7. T. Ruffman
8. J. Buresh

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Celia A. Brownell

In Social Psychology

1. Celia A. Brownell
2. A. Woodward
3. Beate Sodian
4. J. Wharton
5. A. Young
6. Markus Paulus
7. Kathayoon Khalil
8. T. Ruffman

Citations in the corpus

• Social understanding and self-regulation predict pre-schoolers’ sharing with friends and disliked peers (2015, background): “From a conceptual point of view, our findings thus provide longitudinal support for recent proposals that the varieties of prosocial actions are based on partly distinct mechanisms and follow their own developmental pathways (e.g., Dunfield & Kuhlmeier, 2013; for a review, see Paulus, 2014).”
• Empathy for Animals: A Review of the Existing Literature (2018, background): “For instance, the role of the parent’s socialization and modeling during toddler years is instrumental in supporting the development of empathy throughout the child’s life (Chawla 2009; Paulus 2014; Taylor et al. 2013).”
• Prosocial Behavior in Infancy: The Role of Socialization (2016, background): “Paulus (42) recently suggested two potential sources of infants’ prosocial behavior in”