Neighborhood Deprivation Negatively Impacts Children’s Prosocial Behavior

Children show stronger cooperative behavior in experimental settings as they get older, but little is known about how the environment of a child shapes this development. In adults, prosocial behavior towards strangers is markedly decreased in low SES neighborhoods, suggesting that environmental hars...

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Main Authors: Lou Safra, Teodora Tecu, Stéphane Lambert, Mark Sheskin, Nicolas Baumard, Coralie Chevallier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01760/full