Humans and other animals can learn new skills and behaviors from others they interact with. This process, referred to as social learning, has been widely investigated in the past, particularly in the context of responses ...
New research from Durham University shows that the way parents instruct and encourage infants to help plays a key role in how helping behavior develops, and that these approaches vary across cultures.
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Why are adolescents so sensitive to their peers' behavior? And is this sensitivity necessarily negative, as the term peer pressure often implies? In his Ph.D. dissertation, UvA behavioral scientist Andrea Gradassi demonstrates ...
Mar 5, 2026
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Societal stigma against autistic people may influence how much effort individuals put into 'prosocial' or charitable behaviors, according to a new study.
Oct 9, 2025
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University of Wollongong researchers report statistically significant associations between parental technology use in a child's presence (PTU) and specific cognitive, behavioral, and screen-based outcomes.
Our willingness to help others is governed by a specific brain region pinpointed by researchers in a study of patients with brain damage to that region.
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Children have been shown to already exhibit empathic concern at 18 months. In an LMU study published in Cognitive Development, the facial expressions, gestures, or vocalizations of children at this age indicated they were ...
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