1/2 Children don't need to be taught to be helpful. Quite the opposite, adults tend to teach them NOT to help. Based on my research on children's cooperation in China and the UK, I show how children move from general helpfulness to culturally shaped patterns of helping.
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Ethos | AAA Sociocultural Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
Helping is one of the key features of human sociality. The ethnographic record is pervaded by accounts of people doing things with and for each other from an early age. Developmental psychology has s...
