Infant helping in the first year of life: Parents’ recollection of infants’ earliest prosocial behaviors

Hammond, Stuart I.; Al-Jbouri, Elizabeth; Edwards, Victoria; Feltham, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2017.02.004

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“…*p = 0.011, **p = 0.007 by assessing the interplay between several critical variables in the lab, this approach should be complemented by naturalistic approaches, to scrutinize how early helping tendencies unfold under different conditions in everyday life (Brownell, 2016;Dahl, 2017;Hammond, Al-Jbouri, Edwards, & Feltham, 2017). The lines depict the conditional effects between infants' understanding of others' needs and their helping behavior for two different moderators, namely infants' (a) fine motor abilities and (b) social interaction skills.…”

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“…Infants' understanding of others' needs was associated with their helping behavior at high levels of the moderator variables. *p = 0.011, **p = 0.007 by assessing the interplay between several critical variables in the lab, this approach should be complemented by naturalistic approaches, to scrutinize how early helping tendencies unfold under different conditions in everyday life (Brownell, 2016;Dahl, 2017;Hammond, Al-Jbouri, Edwards, & Feltham, 2017).…”

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From understanding others' needs to prosocial action: Motor and social abilities promote infants' helping

Köster

Itakura

Omori

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Developmental Science

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In the present study, we test the main hypothesis that infants' understanding of others' needs translates into helping behavior, when critical motor and social competencies have emerged, early in the second year. We assessed the understanding of others' needs in an eye-tracking paradigm and the helping behavior of 10-(n = 41) and 16-month-olds (n = 37). Furthermore, we assessed the motor and social abilities of 16-month-olds. Critically, while infants understood others' needs already at 10 months, fine motor and social interaction skills moderated the link between infants' prosocial understanding and helping behavior at 16 months. This provides first evidence that infants' helping behavior relates to their understanding of others' needs. Furthermore, we found that fine motor, gross motor, and social interaction skills predicted early helping behavior by themselves. These findings highlight that the emergence of infants' helping behavior is the result of a developmental system that includes infants' understanding of others' needs and also their motor and social competencies. The link between infants' understanding of others' needs and their early helpful actions provide further support for the prosocial nature of early helping behavior. K E Y W O R D Shelping behavior, motor development, social interaction, understanding others' needs

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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From understanding others' needs to prosocial action: Motor and social abilities promote infants' helping

Köster

Itakura

Omori

et al. 2019

Developmental Science

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“…The earliest forms of helping can be located in the second half of the first year of life where infants seem to support their parents' attempts to dress them and care for them [32]. In its early emergence, parents scaffold infants' helping behavior, which indeed leads to enhanced helping [15,33].…”

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The multidimensional nature of early prosocial behavior: a motivational perspective

Paulus

2018

Current Opinion in Psychology

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A majority of current work indicates that the different types of prosocial behavior in young children (helping, sharing, comforting) are not related to each other. Here, I review recent studies that examined the relations between prosocial actions as well as the antecedents and correlates of the particular domains of prosociality. I argue that in addition to different social-cognitive demands also different motivations are involved in early prosocial action, and that prosociality is thus a concept that encompasses -at least early in development -heterogeneous behaviors and motivations.

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“…Infants begin participating in self‐care activities in the first year, for instance, by holding their own toothbrush (Hammond, Al‐Jbouri, Edwards, & Feltham, ). These earliest acts of helping likely build on skills acquired through earlier triadic interactions.…”

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From Interest to Obligation: The Gradual Development of Human Altruism

Dahl

Paulus

2018

Child Dev Perspectives

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Altruism is a central feature of human morality. Recent research sheds light on the development of altruism in early childhood. In this article, we propose a theoretical framework that systematizes research on how altruism develops from infancy to childhood. The framework includes four phases in the development of human altruism: (a) interest in social interactions, (b) preference for others’ goal completion, (c) concern with others’ well‐being, and (d) a normative stance toward altruistic actions. We point to needs for additional research, especially on developmental processes by which children develop from one phase to another, eventually leading children to acquire forms of altruism that play important roles in human societies.

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Infant helping in the first year of life: Parents’ recollection of infants’ earliest prosocial behaviors

Cited by 44 publications

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From understanding others' needs to prosocial action: Motor and social abilities promote infants' helping

From understanding others' needs to prosocial action: Motor and social abilities promote infants' helping

The multidimensional nature of early prosocial behavior: a motivational perspective

From Interest to Obligation: The Gradual Development of Human Altruism

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