Young Children Are More Generous when Others Are Aware of Their Actions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Leimgruber, Kristin L ^a   Shaw, Alex ^a   Santos, Laurie R ^a   Olson, Kristina R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GENEROSITY; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ALTRUISM; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEER GROUP; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84868286353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048292     Document Type: Article

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