A Study of Sharing.

Autor/inn/en	Wolff, Joseph L.; Levy, Janet
Titel	A Study of Sharing.
Quelle	(1978), (9 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Affective Behavior; Altruism; Early Childhood Education; Empathy; Group Norms; Modeling (Psychology); Peer Relationship; Preschool Children; Prosocial Behavior; Research; Social Exchange Theory; Socialization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Empathie; Modeling; Modelling; Modellierung; Peer-Beziehungen; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Forschung; Theorie des sozialen Wandels; Socialisation; Sozialisation
Abstract	This paper is a report of a study which explores the relative contributions of norms, modeling, positive affect, and empathy to generalized reciprocity (prior help by one person leading to greater helpfulness by the recipient toward another person). Preschool children were randomly assigned to one of six groups and individually exposed to two successively presented videotaped models, each of whom was faced with the same sharing decision problem that the subjects were to face later. Half the subjects were told that the recipient of the model's potential charity was an unknown child, while the other half were led to believe they themselves would receive any toys the model chose to share. Three conditions were created within the modeling situation: selfish-selfish condition (both models refused to share), generous-generous condition (both agreed to share), and generous-selfish condition (one agreed and the other disagreed to share). Subsequently, the subjects were given an opportunity to share toys with an unknown recipient. The results of the study failed to confirm predictions based on the reciprocity and affect hypotheses. Modeling played a major role in the experimentally-induced altruistic behavior. (CM)
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