Pacific Standard March-April 2013 Cover

Visual Cues Make Children More Helpful

Do your children behave selfishly? If so, they may be picking up cues from their environment. That's the implication of a startling new study by a British psychologist, which found 18-month-old children were far more likely to help someone in need after they were subtly introduced to the concept of togetherness. The study, just published in the journal Psychological Science, was conducted by psychologist Harriet Over, who is affiliated with both Cardiff University in Wales and the Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. She and her co-author, Malinda ... Read More