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How development and culture shape intuitions about prosocial obligations

2022-02-11

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<p>Do children, like most adults, believe that only kin and close others are obligated to help oneanother? In two studies (total N = 1140), we examined whether children (~5- to ~10-yos) andadults across five different societies consider social relationship when ascribing prosocialobligations. Contrary to the view that such discriminations are a natural default in humanreasoning, younger children in the United Stat...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/mct4v

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