The Developmental Relations between Perspective Taking and Prosocial Behaviors: A Meta-Analytic Examination of the Task-Specificity Hypothesis

Self- and Social-Regulation: Exploring the Relations Between Social Interaction, Social Understanding, and the Development of Executive Functions

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Carlo, Gustavo ^a   Knight, George P ^b   McGinley, Meredith ^a   Goodvin, Rebecca ^c   Roesch, Scott C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Meta analysis; Moral development; Perspective taking; Prosocial behaviors; Social cognitions; Sympathy; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920602490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195327694.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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