The Roots of Prosocial Behavior in Children

by Nancy Eisenberg and Paul Henry Mussen

Book Overview

What kinds of childbearing practices foster the development of helping, sharing, and other prosocial behaviours? What roles do biology and culture play in the development of prosocial behaviour? In this book, Nancy Eisenberg and Paul Mussen review and summarize scholarly research that has been devoted to the development of prosocial behaviour in children, and examine the variety of influences that contribute to children's prosocial development, including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521337712
• ISBN13: 9780521337717
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Well documented research to consider in pro-child policies

Eisenberg and Mussen's book is a refreshing look at what can go right with child development. The research and the ideas give professionals (teachers, mental health, social change advocates) and parents clear ideas about how to approach developing and encouraging prosocial, caring, sharing and empathic children. If many people, including politicians, seriously looked at the literature it would be much clearer about how to train and restructure institutions, schools, childcare centers and address world issues, and possibly what kind of refugee camps and IDP camps to fund and support. The uses of this kind of book could be profound or just shelved and forgotten.