Highlights•Parental warmth and sensitivity promote young children's empathy and prosocial
behavior.•Parent socialization of emotion predicts prosociality through emotion regulation …

Ascertaining whether and the extent to which different aspects of parenting are associated
with prosocial behaviors could inform parenting programs in cultivating healthy …

What is it to be “an ideal parent”? Does the answer differ across countries and social
classes? To answer these questions in a way that minimizes bias and ethnocentrism, we …

Highlights•Studies reported no relations between different prosocial behaviors early in
development.•Different prosocial behaviors have unique antecedents and …

Developmental theorists have made strong claims about the fundamental prosocial or
aggressive nature of the human infant. However, only rarely have prosocial behavior and …

Why do infants spontaneously begin to help others early in their second year of life?
Building on the seminal work by Warneken and Tomasello, a decade of intense research …

The awareness that prosocial skills begin to develop during the early years, with lasting
implications for social lives, underpins increasing efforts to find ways of promoting prosocial …

Introduction Young children show their capacity for compassion and their desire to enhance
the welfare of others in multiple ways. The present study sought to address gaps in …

Children act prosocially very early in life by helping, comforting, or sharing with others.
Recent research showed that preschool children differ in their representation of their other …

Over the last decades, many studies had focused on the psychological outcomes of children
who have received early socialization outside of the family context, highlighting that the …