Neural computations in children's third-party interventions are modulated by their parents' moral values.

ABSTRACT: One means by which humans maintain social cooperation is through intervention in third-party transgressions, a behaviour observable from the early years of development. While it has been argued that pre-school age children's intervention behaviour is driven by normative understandings, there is scepticism regarding this claim. There is also little consensus regarding the underlying mechanisms and motives that initially drive intervention behaviours in pre-school children. To elucidate the neural computations of moral norm violation associated with young children's intervention into third-party transgression, forty-seven preschoolers (average age 53.92 months) participated in a study comprising of electroencephalographic (EEG) measurements, a live interaction experiment, and a parent survey

SUBMITTER: Kim M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8683432 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature