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Finish what you started : 2-year-olds motivated by a preference for completing others' unfinished actions in instrumental helping contexts
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Michael, John, Green, Alexander, Siposova, Barbora, Jensen, Keith and Kita, Sotaro (2022) Finish what you started : 2-year-olds motivated by a preference for completing others' unfinished actions in instrumental helping contexts. Cognitive Science, 46 (6). e13160. doi:10.1111/cogs.13160
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13160
Abstract
A considerable body of research has documented the emergence of what appears to be instrumental helping behavior in early childhood. The current study tested the hypothesis that one basic psychological mechanism motivating this behavior is a preference for completing unfinished actions. To test this, a paradigm was implemented in which 2-year-olds (n = 34, 16 female/18 male, mostly White middle-class children) could continue an adult’s action when the adult no longer wanted to complete the action. The results showed that children continued the adult’s actions more often when the goal had been abandoned than when it had been reached (OR = 2.37). This supports the hypothesis that apparent helping behavior in 2-year-olds is motivated by a preference for completing unfinished actions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Helping behavior in children, Contagion (Social psychology), Altruism in children, Child psychology, Goal (Psychology) | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cognitive Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Psychology Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0364-0213 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 4 June 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 46 | ||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||
| Article Number: | e13160 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/cogs.13160 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
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