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Beier JS, Terrizzi BF, Woodward AM, et al. Shyness and Social Conflict Reduce Young Children's Social Helpfulness. Child Dev. 2016;88(6):1922-1929doi: 10.1111/cdev.12681.
Beier, J. S., Terrizzi, B. F., Woodward, A. M., & Larson, E. G. (2017). Shyness and Social Conflict Reduce Young Children's Social Helpfulness. Child development, 88(6), 1922-1929. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12681
Beier, Jonathan S, et al. "Shyness and Social Conflict Reduce Young Children's Social Helpfulness." Child development vol. 88,6 (2017): 1922-1929. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12681
Beier JS, Terrizzi BF, Woodward AM, Larson EG. Shyness and Social Conflict Reduce Young Children's Social Helpfulness. Child Dev. 2017 Nov;88(6):1922-1929. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12681. Epub 2016 Nov 24. PMID: 27883191.
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Child Dev. 2017 Nov;88(6):1922-1929. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12681. Epub 2016 Nov 24.

Shyness and Social Conflict Reduce Young Children's Social Helpfulness.

Child development

Jonathan S Beier, Brandon F Terrizzi, Amanda M Woodward, Emma G Larson

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  1. University of Maryland, College Park.

PMID: 27883191 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12681

Abstract

This study examined social influences on 3-year-old children's decisions to help an experimenter gain another person's attention (N = 32). Children were slower to help the experimenter when the target had previously expressed disinterest in attending to her. Shy children were less likely to support the experimenter's attempts to communicate with the target; however, this association was not influenced by children's knowledge of the target's disinterest, and there was no relation between shyness and children's support for a separate physical goal. Therefore, young children's decisions to act helpfully incorporate consideration for others beyond a focal person with an unmet need, and they are further constrained by children's own comfort with the actions required to help.

© 2016 The Authors. Child Development © 2016 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.

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