What makes kids generous? Neuroscience has some answers

Researchers have tried to demonstrate the moral behavior has been changed as the child gets older. The moral behavior was substituted by measuring generosity. To measure the generosity, the children were participated the ‘dictator game’, which is sharing their own stickers with anonymous child after seeing short prosocial/antisocial animations. As the results, the automatic patterns were exhibited early while the more controlled patterns of neural response appeared later during the period of seeing animation including helping and harmful behaviors.

This study was published by Current Biology in Jan. 5, 2015.

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