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24 - Culture and Prosociality

from Part III - Development of Prosociality in Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2023

By
Tara Callaghan  and
John Corbit
Edited by
Tina Malti  and
Maayan Davidov
Tina Malti
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Maayan Davidov
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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This chapter provides an overview of the similarities and differences in the development of prosociality across cultural contexts and examines the role of social cognitive and motivational factors in shaping cultural diversity. We focus on helping and sharing, examined most extensively across cultures. Low-cost helping and sharing show similar developmental trajectories and levels across cultures. Development of costly helping diverges across cultures in the second year. Costly sharing diverges around middle childhood, coinciding with children’s adherence to cooperative norms of their society. Social cognitive foundations of prosociality develop along similar trajectories, suggesting that diversity in costly prosocial behaviors is best explained by motivational processes. New research suggests that collaboration influences motivational processes, producing similar levels of costly prosociality across diverse societies. To identify the psychological and sociocultural mechanisms underlying human development, it is critical to merge deep understanding of the everyday lives of children with theoretically guided experiments.

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culturecooperationprosocial behaviorhelpingsharingfairnesscollaboration
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The Cambridge Handbook of Prosociality
Development, Mechanisms, Promotion
 , pp. 477 - 500
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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