{"pk":28705,"title":"How can I help? Developmental change in the selectivity of two to four-year-olds’attempts to alleviate others’ distress","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Young children are selective in deciding whom to help (i.e.,they preferentially assist and share resources with prosocialversus antisocial others; Hamlin, Wynn, Bloom, & Mahajan,2011; Vaish, Carpenter, & Tomasello, 2010) but are they alsoselective in deciding how to offer help? Here we show two tofive-year-olds (N = 32; mean: 42.41 months; range 27-68months) characters who are distressed for different reasons:they are hurt, bored, or sad. Children of all ages tried to helpthe agent but the selectivity of children’s responses variedwith age and condition; in particular, children’s responses toboredom and sadness became increasingly differentiated withage.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Helping"},{"word":"Empathy"},{"word":"social cognition"},{"word":"theory ofmind"},{"word":"preschoolers"},{"word":"toddlers"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7hv066q3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Regina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ebo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Laura","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schulz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28705/galley/18576/download/"}]}