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Toddlers readily help peers, demonstrating flexible prosocial skills. Their helping behavior is not limited to adults but extends to peers, even when the task is not mutually engaging.
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Area of Science:
- Developmental Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Early Childhood Development
Background:
- Toddlers exhibit significant prosocial behavior towards adults.
- Limited research exists on toddler helping behavior towards peers.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate toddlers' helping behavior towards peers.
- To determine if toddlers' helping is contingent on the recipient's competence or engagement.
Main Methods:
- Study involved 192 toddlers aged 18 and 30 months, in 48 dyads per age group.
- A helping task was designed where one child needed assistance reaching an object.
- Compared helping rates to a no-need control condition.
Main Results:
- Toddlers significantly increased helping behavior when a peer needed assistance compared to controls.
- Helping occurred even when the task was only engaging for the child needing help.
- This indicates toddlers help peers flexibly.
Conclusions:
- Toddlers' prosocial helping skills are not restricted to adult recipients.
- Helping motivation and skills in toddlers are more general than previously thought.
- Early prosocial behavior is adaptable to peer interactions.