Competence-based helping: Children's consideration of need when providing others with help

J. Sierksma; K. Shutts

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105206

Competence-based helping: Children's consideration of need when providing others with help

J. Sierksma^*
, K. Shutts

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Abstract

When and how other people’s needs influence children’s helping is poorly understood. Here we focused on whether children use information about other people’s competence in their helping. In Study 1 (N = 128 4- to 8-year-old children), children could provide help to both an incompetent target and a competent target by pushing levers. Whereas older children helped incompetent targets more than competent targets, younger children (

Original language	English
Article number	105206
Journal	Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Volume	210
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105206
Publication status	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Keywords

Prosocial behavior
Social cognition
Moral development
Competence
Need
Fairness

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