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Intergroup Helping: How Do Children See It?

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Developmental research has shown that children start to help others from 14 months onwards and with age become better at understanding when, why and how to help. Although these kinds of studies show how children’s individual abilities and dispositions influence their prosocial reasoning and helping behaviour, less attention has been paid to whom children might want to help, and why they refuse to help others. Developmental intergroup research has shown that children’s social group identities influence how they perceive and behave towards others in intergroup contexts. In this chapter, recent research on children’s intergroup helping is discussed. We start by shortly considering research on children’s actual helping and sharing behaviours in intergroup contexts. The few studies that have been conducted show inconsistent results with regard to group-based biases in children’s helping and sharing. There is thus a strong need to understand the mechanisms underlying children’s intergroup prosociality. We discuss how children reason about helping in general, and we continue by examining how group boundaries influence children’s judgements of helping. In doing so, we discuss the role of social identity and loyalty. Fourth, we consider the role of self-presentation and group norms in intergroup helping decisions, and we discuss how inducing empathy can stimulate the intention to help across group boundaries. We end with conclusions and suggestions for future research.

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