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SUBMITTER: Safra L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5107739 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Safra Lou L Tecu Teodora T Lambert Stéphane S Sheskin Mark M Baumard Nicolas N Chevallier Coralie C
Frontiers in psychology 20161114
Children show stronger cooperative behavior in experimental settings as they get older, but little is known about how the environment of a child shapes this development. In adults, prosocial behavior toward strangers is markedly decreased in low socio-economic status (SES) neighborhoods, suggesting that environmental harshness has a negative impact on some prosocial behaviors. Similar results have been obtained with 9-year-olds recruited from low vs. high SES schools. In the current study, we in ...[more]