Children’s Early Helping in Action: Piagetian Developmental Theory and Early Prosocial Behavior

After a brief overview of recent research on early helping, outlining some central problems and issues, this paper examines children’s early helping through the lens of Piagetian moral and developmental theory, drawing on Piaget’s ‘Moral Judgment of the Child’ (1932/1997), ‘Play, Dreams, and Imitati...

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Main Author: Stuart Ian Hammond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00759/full