期刊
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
卷 201, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104973
关键词
Common knowledge; Helping; Prosociality; Obligation; Strategic behaviour; Motivation
资金
- Medical Research Council [MR/S033858/1] Funding Source: Medline
Common knowledge can heighten the sense of obligation to help others. Research shows that 6-year-olds are more likely to help those in need when they share common knowledge about the recipient's plight, compared to when they individually have private knowledge about it.
Although there is considerable evidence that at least some helping behavior is motivated by genuine concern for others' well-being, sometimes we also help solely out of a sense of obligation to the persons in need. Our sense of obligation to help may be particularly strong when there is common knowledge between the helper and the helpee that the helpee needs help. To test whether children's helping behavior is affected by having common knowledge with the recipient about the recipient's need, 6-year-olds faced a dilemma: They could either collect stickers or help an experimenter. Children were more likely to help when they and the experimenter had common knowledge about the experimenter's plight (because they heard it together) than when they each had private knowledge about it (because they heard it individually). These results suggest that already in young children common knowledge can heighten the sense of obligation to help others in need. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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