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Michael, John and Székely, Marcell (2017) Goal slippage : a mechanism for spontaneous instrumental helping in infancy? Topoi . doi:10.1007/s11245-017-9485-5 ISSN 0167-7411 .
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11245-017-9485-5
Abstract
In recent years, developmental psychologists have increasingly been interested in various forms of prosocial behavior observed in infants and young children—in particular comforting, sharing, pointing to provide information, and spontaneous instrumental helping. We briefly review several models that have been proposed to explain the psychological mechanisms underpinning these behaviors. Focusing on spontaneous instrumental helping, we home in on models based upon what Paulus (Child Development Perspectives 8(2):77–81, 2014) has dubbed ‘goal-alignment’, i.e. the idea that the identification of an agent’s goal leads infants to take up that goal as their own. We identify a problem with the most well-known model based upon this idea, namely the ‘goal contagion’ model. The problem arises from the way in which the model specifies the content of the goal which is identified and taken up. We then propose an alternative way of specifying the content of the goal, and use this as a starting point for articulating an alternative model based upon the idea of alignment, namely the ‘goal slippage’ model. By elucidating the difference between goal contagion and goal slippage, we contribute to the articulation of experimental criteria for assessing whether and when the mechanisms specified by these two models are at work.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Helping behavior, Social psychology, Goal (Psychology), Altruism | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Topoi | ||||||
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||
ISSN: | 0167-7411 | ||||||
Official Date: | 21 April 2017 | ||||||
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DOI: | 10.1007/s11245-017-9485-5 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 April 2017 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 April 2017 | ||||||
Funder: | European Research Council (ERC) |
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