Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees

By Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello. Science, 2006

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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A lifespan perspective on attachment and care for others: Empathy, altruism, and prosocial behavior (2016, background): “By their second birthday, almost all infants readily provide instrumental help (Warneken & Tomasello, 2006, reported that 92% of 18-month-old infants provided help in at least one simple situation), and some show concerned attention or provide comfort in response to the distress of peers, siblings,…”
The phenomenology and development of social perspectives (2013, background): “6 Thus, already in the second year of life, infants show compassion when witnessing another’s mishap or altruistic behaviour such as helping others to achieve their goals (Warneken and Tomasello 2006), but certainly not because they feel a moral obligation to do so.”
Following Pleistocene road signs of human dispersals across Eurasia (2013, background): “for young chimpanzees as well as humans (Warneken and Tomasello, 2006).”
Culture Matters When Designing a Successful Happiness-Increasing Activity (2013, background): “Humans as young as 18 months engage in prosocial behavior (Warneken & Tomasello, 2006), suggesting that doing good for others might be evolutionarily adaptive and have cross-cultural appeal.”
The ontogeny of human prosociality: behavioral experiments with children aged 3 to 8 (2012, background): “…helping tasks, children are substantially more helpful than chimpanzees, and chimpanzees do not show sensitivity to social context in that they provide help at comparable rates to both conspecifics (Warneken et al., 2007) and human experimenters (Warneken & Tomasello, 2006; Warneken et al., 2007).”
Precocious Prosociality: Why Do Young Children Help? (2015, background): “While verbal and nonverbal communication increases the likelihood that children will help, it is often unnecessary (3, 4, 7, 8).”
Basic Emotions, Natural Kinds, Emotion Schemas, and a New Paradigm (2007, background): “Empathy may provide the emotion motivation that drives altruistic behavior observable in human toddlers and chimpanzees (Hoffman, 2000; Warneken & Tomasello, 2006).”
Origins of human cooperation and morality. (2013, background): “On the other hand, although chimpanzees do show some prosocial behaviors toward humans and conspecifics (e.g., Melis et al. 2011, Warneken & Tomasello 2006), this behavior is not affected by whether the context is a collaborative or a noncollaborative one (Greenberg et al. 2010).”
The Development of Fairness Expectations and Prosocial Behavior in the Second Year of Life (2013, methodology): “…in two additional tasks that have previously been used to measure prosocial behavior in infants during the second year of life: an informational helping task (adapted from Liszkowski, Carpenter, Striano, & Tomasello, 2006) and an instrumental helping task (adapted from Warneken & Tomasello, 2006).”
Belief-based action prediction in preverbal infants (2014, methodology): “To address this question, we took two measures.”
Prosocial spending and well-being: cross-cultural evidence for a psychological universal. (2013, positive): “for helping – suggesting that humans and our nearest evolutionary relatives may find helping others inherently rewarding ( 13 ).”
A New Look at Children’s Prosocial Motivation (2013, background): “For instance, infants as young as 14 months of age help others achieve their instrumental goals by removing obstacles and fetching out-of-reach objects for them (Warneken & Tomasello, 2006, 2007).”
Human Culture in Evolutionary Perspective (2010, background): “Warneken and Tomasello ( 2006 , 2007 ) had 1-year-old human infants and three human-raised chimpanzees confront a human adult needing help with 10 simple problems such as fetching an out-of-reach object or opening cabinet doors with hands full.”