Neuroscientists from the University of Chicago have figure out specific brain markers that can predict generosity in kids, meaning that theyre so many forms of pro-social behaviors in the psychological-consciousness. Although young kids can be natural helpers, their perspective on sharing resources tends to be selfish. Jean Decety, the Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, and Jason Cowell, a postdoctoral scholar in Decetys Child Neuro Suite lab, wanted to find out and explain why young childrens brain evaluate whether to share something with others out of generosity. The hypothesis paper will be forwarded in the January 5, 2015 issue of Current Biology, where this study was used as a proxy for ethical-behavior. This study also included recording brain waves by EEG and eye tracking of 57 kids, ages three to five years of age, whilst they viewed short animations depicting pro-social and anti-social behaviors of cartoon-esque characters assisting or hurting one another. Following that testing, the kids played a modified variation of a scenario called the dictator game. The kids were also given ten stickers and were told that the stickers were theirs to keep. They were then asked if they wanted to share any of their stickers with an anonymous child who was to come to their lab a little later that day, etc.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:01:45 +0000
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