Child Neurosuite

New study with Dr. Minkang Kim shows that parents’ moral values influence their children’s early neural responses to third-party harm and their costly intervention behavior (e.g. verbal reprimand, policing and protesting).

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Neural computations in children’s third-party interventions are modulated by their parents’ moral values - npj Science of Learning One means by which humans maintain social cooperation is through intervention in third-party transgressions, a behaviour observable from the early years of development. While it has been argued that pre-school age children’s intervention behaviour is driven by normative understandings, there is sc...

Across countries (Canada, China, Colombia, Jordan, Turkey, South Africa and USA), girls showed greater levels of situational empathy and empathic disposition than boys. Child empathic disposition, but not situational empathy or prosociality, was associated with parental empathic disposition. Older children showed more prosocial sharing than young ones, but prosocial sharing was not influenced by child empathic disposition.

An investigation of children's empathic dispositions and behaviours across seven countries This study examined individual influences on child empathy, the relationship between child and parent empathy, and the relationship between empathy and prosociality across seven countries. A large s...

If You Teach Children To Be Kind You Get Better Results In Class Teaching children to be kind and care for others may help those from deprived neighborhoods close the gap with their more advantaged classmates.

Selfish or selfless? Human nature means you're both Cognitive neuroscientists use brain imaging and behavioral economic games to investigate people's sense of fairness. They find it's common to take care of yourself before looking out for others.