When Helping Hurts: Children Think Groups That Receive Help Are Less Smart

Autor/inn/en	Sierksma, Jellie; Shutts, Kristin
Titel	When Helping Hurts: Children Think Groups That Receive Help Are Less Smart
Quelle	In: Child Development, 91 (2020) 3, S.715-723 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sierksma, Jellie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13351
Schlagwörter	Childrens Attitudes; Helping Relationship; Intelligence; Young Children; Inferences; Observation; Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Helfende Beziehung; Intelligenz; Klugheit; Frühe Kindheit; Inference; Inferenz; Beobachtung
Abstract	Helping has many positive consequences for both helpers and recipients. However, in the present research, we considered a possible downside to receiving help: that it signals a deficiency. We investigated whether young children make inferences about intelligence from observing some groups of people receive help and other groups not. In a novel group paradigm, we show that children (4-6 years) think groups that receive help are less smart (n = 44) but not less nice (n = 45). Children also generalized their inferences about relative intelligence to new group members (n = 55; forced-choice-method). These results have implications for understanding how children develop stereotypes about intelligence as well as for educational practices that group children according to their ability. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01