Norms permeate human life. Most of people's activities can be characterized by rules about
what is appropriate, allowed, required, or forbidden—rules that are crucial in making people …

Do children, like most adults, believe that only kin and close others are obligated to help one
another? In two studies (total N= 1140), we examined whether children (∼ 5-to∼ 10-yos) …

Two studies examined whether children (5‐and 6‐year‐olds; 8‐and 9‐year‐olds, n= 214)
and adults (n= 72) consider social relationship when evaluating unhelpful or helpful actions …

Intergroup resource allocation was examined among 333 children aged 7–11 (51.9%
female) within three settings of former intergroup conflict (January–June 2021). Children …

Justice sensitivity (JS), the tendency to perceive and adversely respond to injustice, was
related to prosocial behavior in different age groups and to distributive preferences in adults …

Young children help others in a range of situations, relatively indiscriminate of the
characteristics of those they help. Recent results have suggested that young children's …

Children tell prosocial lies from the age of three years onward, but little is known about for
whom they are inclined to lie. This preregistered study examined children's (N= 138, 9–12 …

Children (predominantly white and middle class) between 3 and 6 years (M= 55.12 months,
N= 145 at Time 1, N= 102 at Time 2) participated in the prosocial choice test at two time …

Las teorías del desarrollo humano basadas en la antropología cultural y la biología
evolutiva sugieren que algunos aspectos de la prosocialidad humana se ven influidos por …

This study examined the sex-specific developmental trajectories of sharing behavior in the
Dictator Game with an anonymous other, best friend, and disliked peer and associations …