The Caring Child (Developing Child): 28 (The Developing Child) - Softcover

Eisenberg, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674097262 ISBN 13: 9780674097261

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1992

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Much of the 20th century's empirical research in the social sciences has been devoted to understanding the causes and contributing factors of antisocial behaviour. In studies of children's moral reasoning and conduct, developmental psychologists have probed the cognitive and social bases of aggression, conflict delinquency, and prejudice. In contrast to psychology's lengthy preoccupation with negative behaviour in children, the study of children's altruistic, cooperative, and sharing behaviour has a relatively short history. "The Caring Child" aims to provide the most up-to-date account of our current understanding of the motivations behind prosocial behaviours and how these motives develop and are elicited in various situations. When do children first exhibit prosocial behaviour, particularly altruism? How do helping, sharing, and comforting behaviour change with age? Are differences among children's prosocial behaviours a result of hereditary factors, of how children are raised, or both? Can prosocial tendencies be enhanced by parents' and educators' deliberate attempts to instill altruistic motives and to teach caring behaviours? Nancy Eisenberg seeks to broaden our concept of the moral potential of children as she shifts the focus from censoring antisocial behaviours to the active promotion of kindness and caring in children.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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'The Caring Child' provides the most up-to-date account of our current understanding of the motivation behind prosocial behaviors and how these motives develop and are elicited in various situations.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0674097262
• ISBN 13: 9780674097261
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 202
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar