3-207 - The Development of Prosocial Behaviors from Infancy to Adolescence

Session Type: Paper Session

Integrative Statement

This symposium investigates the development of prosocial behaviors from infancy to adolescence. The first paper investigates children's sharing with in-group and out-group members. The second paper examines whether children attend to the value of the objects when sharing resources. The findings document that although young children tend to share evenly, they show favoritism according to value. The third paper highlights how, with age, children increasingly recognize social inequalities and give more to disadvantaged groups. The fourth paper investigates coherence, stability, and moderators of prosocial behavior growth trajectories from infancy to adolescence. Taken together, the papers shed new light on moderators of prosocial behavior and its development from childhood to adolescence.

Sub Unit

• Moral Development

Chair

• antonio zuffiano, University of Toronto

Individual Presentations

• The Development of Anonymous Giving Across Recipient - Presenting Author: Karin Machluf, Florida Atlantic University; David F Bjorklund, Florida Atlantic Univ

• Equal but not always fair: Value-laden sharing in preschool-aged children - Presenting Author: Nadia Chernyak, Brown University; David M Sobel, Brown University

• Children Rectify Social Inequalities Regarding Access to Educational Resources - Presenting Author: Laura Elenbaas, University of Maryland, College Park; Shelby Cooley, University of Maryland, College Park; Michael Thomas Rizzo, University of Maryland, College Park; Melanie A. Killen, University of Maryland, College Park

• Prosocial Behavior from Infancy to Adolescence: Coherence, Stability, and Moderators of Growth Trajectories - Presenting Author: Jesse Drummond, University of Pittsburgh; Susan B Campbell, Univ of Pittsburgh; Celia A Brownell, University of Pittsburgh