Social costs of selfishness: Greed relates to diminished sympathy and prosocial behavior in children
International Journal of Behavioral Development
Published online on March 11, 2026
Abstract
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We examined age-related differences in greed, how greed may be associated with sympathy (other-oriented emotion) across ages, and how greed, through its influence on sympathy, may be related to children’s prosocial actions (i.e., resource distribution and ...
We examined age-related differences in greed, how greed may be associated with sympathy (other-oriented emotion) across ages, and how greed, through its influence on sympathy, may be related to children’s prosocial actions (i.e., resource distribution and ...