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Young Children Sympathize Less in Response to Unjustified Emotional Distress
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Hepach, Robert; Vaish, Amrisha; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Three-year-old children saw an adult displaying the exact same distress in 3 different conditions: (a) the adult's distress was appropriate to a genuine harm, (b) the adult's distress was an overreaction to a minor inconvenience, and (c) there was no apparent cause for the adult's distress. Children who witnessed the adult being appropriately…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Prosocial Behavior, Helping Relationship, Toddlers
Sympathy through Affective Perspective Taking and Its Relation to Prosocial Behavior in Toddlers
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Vaish, Amrisha; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2009
In most research on the early ontogeny of sympathy, young children are presented with an overtly distressed person and their responses are observed. In the current study, the authors asked whether young children could also sympathize with a person to whom something negative had happened but who was expressing no emotion at all. They showed 18- and…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Perspective Taking, Affective Behavior, Toddlers