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Jellie Sierksma; Astrid M. G. Poorthuis – Developmental Science, 2025
Teachers and parents often scaffold children to help others. Not all help is equally beneficial, however. We know very little about the ways in which children distribute different types of help. Across three preregistered studies, we examined when children provide others with help that can hamper learning (outcome-oriented help, e.g., correct…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Helping Relationship, Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups