“…The present findings complement recent research on the role of social learning processes in infants’ early helping behavior, as they suggest that children's prosocial development is potentially affected not only by direct and active structuring of helping situations by others (e.g., Dahl, ; Dahl et al., ; Hammond & Carpendale, ; Kärtner, ; Köster, Cavalcante, et al., ; Köster, Schuhmacher, & Kärtner, ; Pettygrove, Hammond, Karahuta, Waugh, & Brownell, ; Waugh, Brownell, & Pollock, ) but also through learning by the observation of prosocial models. In particular, our experimental studies show that observing prosocial models is an effective social learning mechanism by which infant's early helping behaviors, and possibly, their prosocial motivation can be influenced.…”