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DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 6, Pages 1785-1788Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0013860
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altruism; helping; intrinsic motivation; socialization; overjustification effect
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The current study investigated the influence of rewards on very young children's helping behavior. After 20-month-old infants received a material reward during a treatment phase, they subsequently were less likely to engage in further helping during a test phase as compared with infants who had previously received social praise or no reward at all. This so-called overjustification effect suggests that even the earliest helping behaviors of young children are intrinsically motivated and that socialization practices involving extrinsic rewards can undermine this tendency.
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