Motivation Counts: Autonomous But Not Obligated Sharing Promotes Happiness in Preschoolers | |
Wu, Zhen1; Zhang, Zhen2,3; Guo, Rui1; Gros-Louis, Julie4 | |
刊名 | FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY |
2017-05-31 | |
通讯作者邮箱 | zhen-wu@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn |
卷号 | 8期号:0页码:1-8 |
关键词 | sharing happiness prosocial behavior social norm preschooler |
ISSN号 | 1664-1078 |
通讯作者 | Zhen Wu |
英文摘要 | Research has demonstrated that prosocial sharing is emotionally rewarding, which leads to further prosocial actions; such a positive feedback loop suggests a proximal mechanism of human's tendency to act prosocially. However, it leaves open a question as to how the emotional benefits from sharing develop in young children and whether sharing under pressure promotes happiness as well. The current study directly compared 3- and 5-year-old Chinese children's happiness when sharing was autonomous (the recipient did not contribute to getting the reward) with when sharing was obligated (the recipient and the actor jointly earned the reward). We found that children shared more items overall when sharing was obligated than autonomous, demonstrating their conformity to social norms of merit-based sharing. In children who eventually shared with others, 5-year-olds gave out more stickers in the obligated sharing condition than in the autonomous sharing condition, but 3-year-olds shared the same amount between the conditions, suggesting that 5-year-olds adhered to the meritbased sharing norm more strictly than 3-year-olds. Moreover, in the autonomous sharing condition, children displayed greater happiness when they shared with the recipient than when they kept stickers for themselves, suggesting that costly prosocial giving benefited children with positive mood; however, children did not gain happiness when they shared with the recipient in the obligated sharing condition. These findings demonstrate that children's affective benefits depend on the motivation underlying their prosocial behavior, and further imply that normative force and emotional gains may independently drive preschoolers' prosocial behaviors. |
WOS标题词 | Social Sciences |
类目[WOS] | Psychology, Multidisciplinary |
研究领域[WOS] | Psychology |
关键词[WOS] | PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR ; YOUNG-CHILDREN ; FAIRNESS ; RESPONSES ; JUSTICE ; INFANTS |
收录类别 | SSCI |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000402389300001 |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
源URL | [http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/21540] |
专题 | 心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室 |
作者单位 | 1.Tsinghua Univ, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Univ Iowa, Dept Psychol & Brain Sci, Iowa City, IA USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wu, Zhen,Zhang, Zhen,Guo, Rui,et al. Motivation Counts: Autonomous But Not Obligated Sharing Promotes Happiness in Preschoolers[J]. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,2017,8(0):1-8. |
APA | Wu, Zhen,Zhang, Zhen,Guo, Rui,&Gros-Louis, Julie.(2017).Motivation Counts: Autonomous But Not Obligated Sharing Promotes Happiness in Preschoolers.FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,8(0),1-8. |
MLA | Wu, Zhen,et al."Motivation Counts: Autonomous But Not Obligated Sharing Promotes Happiness in Preschoolers".FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY 8.0(2017):1-8. |
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