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Mine or Yours? Development of Sharing in Toddlers in Relation to Ownership Understanding
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Brownell, Celia A.; Iesue, Stephanie S.; Nichols, Sara R.; Svetlova, Margarita – Child Development, 2013
To examine early developments in other-oriented resource sharing, fifty-one 18- and 24-month-old children were administered 6 tasks with toys or food that could be shared with an adult playmate who had none. On each task the playmate communicated her desire for the items in a series of progressively more explicit cues. Twenty-four-month-olds…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Sharing Behavior, Ownership, Child Development
Toddlers' Prosocial Behavior: From Instrumental to Empathic to Altruistic Helping
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Svetlova, Margarita; Nichols, Sara R.; Brownell, Celia A. – Child Development, 2010
The study explored how the meaning of prosocial behavior changes over toddlerhood. Sixty-five 18- and 30-month-olds could help an adult in 3 contexts: instrumental (action based), empathic (emotion based), and altruistic (costly). Children at both ages helped readily in instrumental tasks. For 18-month-olds, empathic helping was significantly more…
Descriptors: Cues, Prosocial Behavior, Altruism, Toddlers
To Share or Not to Share: When Do Toddlers Respond to Another's Needs?
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Brownell, Celia A.; Svetlova, Margarita; Nichols, Sara – Infancy, 2009
The developmental origins of sharing remain little understood. Using procedures adapted from research on prosocial behavior in chimpanzees, we presented 18- and 25-month-old children with a sharing task in which they could choose to deliver food to themselves only, or to both themselves and another person, thereby making it possible for them to…
Descriptors: Cues, Prosocial Behavior, Student Attitudes, Toddlers