Helpful kids

Posted on Tuesday, 7 August | Comments

Un estudio increíble sobre niños pequeños y su deseo innato por asistir a los demás de su especie, en un instinto de integración y cooperación social que ya traen desde los genes.
Los niños son increíbles y llegan a este mundo con las mejores actitudes y herramientas, de donde sea que las traigan (y es curioso que generalmente conforme crecen dejan de serlo). Ya después, cosas como la Ley del menor esfuerzo y otras causas de holgazanería las aprenden en este mundo…

“From an early age, humans seem to have genuine concern for the welfare of others,” concludes a research team led by Robert Hepach of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Writing in the journal Psychological Science, he and his colleagues argue that before they are socialized into selfishness, children are intrinsically motivated to help others—and not because they wish to “take credit” for their beneficence.

But how exactly do you discover a toddler’s motivation? The researchers took a novel approach: by looking straight into his or her eyes.

They note that our pupils enlarge in response to emotionally stimulating sights, and deduced this could provide an indication of what specifically prompts kids to perk up and take notice. Are they aroused by the sight of someone in need—or, perhaps, by the realization that they could play the hero by helping?… 

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