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| Felix WarnekenSummaryAffiliation: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Country: Germany Publications
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Altruistic helping in human infants and young chimpanzeesFelix Warneken
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Science 311:1301-3. 2006..This requires both an understanding of others' goals and an altruistic motivation to help. In addition, we demonstrate similar though less robust skills and motivations in three young chimpanzees...
The roots of human altruismFelix Warneken
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Br J Psychol 100:455-71. 2009....- Extrinsic rewards undermine altruistic tendencies in 20-month-oldsFelix Warneken
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Dev Psychol 44:1785-8. 2008..This so-called overjustification effect suggests that even the earliest helping behaviors of young children are intrinsically motivated and that socialization practices involving extrinsic rewards can undermine this tendency... 
Spontaneous altruism by chimpanzees and young childrenFelix Warneken
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
PLoS Biol 5:e184. 2007..These results indicate that chimpanzees share crucial aspects of altruism with humans, suggesting that the roots of human altruism may go deeper than previous experimental evidence suggested...- Cooperative activities in young children and chimpanzeesFelix Warneken
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Child Dev 77:640-63. 2006..These results are interpreted as evidence for a uniquely human form of cooperative activity involving shared intentionality that emerges in the second year of life... - Children's developing commitments to joint goalsKatharina Hamann
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Child Dev 83:137-45. 2012..A second study confirmed that 2.5-year-old children understood the task structure. These results suggest that children begin to appreciate the normative dimensions of collaborative activities during the 3rd year of life... - Collaboration encourages equal sharing in children but not in chimpanzeesKatharina Hamann
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Nature 476:328-31. 2011..This species difference raises the possibility that humans' tendency to distribute resources equitably may have its evolutionary roots in the sharing of spoils after collaborative efforts... - Helping and cooperation in children with autismKristin Liebal
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
J Autism Dev Disord 38:224-38. 2008..These results are discussed in terms of the prerequisite cognitive and motivational skills and propensities underlying social behavior... - Chimpanzees help conspecifics obtain food and non-food itemsAlicia P Melis
Department of Comparative and Developmental Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Proc Biol Sci 278:1405-13. 2011..Humans, however, show prosocial motives more readily and in a wider range of contexts... - Young children's understanding of the context-relativity of normative rules in conventional gamesHannes Rakoczy
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig D 04103, Germany
Br J Dev Psychol 27:445-56. 2009..Young children thus understand context-specific rules even when the context marking is non-linguistic. These results are discussed in the broader context of the development of social cognition and cultural learning... - The sources of normativity: young children's awareness of the normative structure of gamesHannes Rakoczy
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, Germany
Dev Psychol 44:875-81. 2008..These studies demonstrate in a particularly strong way that even very young children have some grasp of the normative structure of conventional activities... - Collaborative partner or social tool? New evidence for young children's understanding of joint intentions in collaborative activitiesFelix Warneken
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Dev Sci 15:54-61. 2012..These findings suggest that young children do not just view their collaborative partners as mindless social tools, but rather as intentional, cooperative agents with whom they must coordinate intentional states... - Human behaviour: Share and share alikeMichael Tomasello
Nature 454:1057-8. 2008