Sharing develops later and less spontaneously than helping or comforting.

Evidence

Baumard et al. discuss children’s failures to show selective sharing (e.g., Bernhard et al. 2006; Blake & Rand 2010); however, it is necessary to consider that sharing is one of the last prosocial behaviours to develop (e.g., Dunfield & Kuhlmeier, in press). Moreover, early sharing behaviours are often less spontaneous than other prosocial measures, relying heavily on the recipient’s vocalization of their desire (Brownell et al. 2009), suggesting that they may not be the best measure to assess children’s moral motivations. Indeed, if we look at earlier emerging prosocial behaviours, such as helping or comforting, we can observe nuanced interactions earlier in development, which suggests that Baumard et al.’s proposed proximate mechanisms for a mutualistic morality may motivate some of the earliest examples of other-oriented behaviour. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 382

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: if sharing is the last prosocial behavior to develop, does the partner-choice mutualism model over-rely on the one behavior that is least spontaneous and latest to appear?
• XREF: connects to: Sharing emerges later than possessive ownership behavior in children. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 588; Humans may extend kin-based sharing rules to strangers by treating them as context-dependent relatives. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 285

Related

• Sharing emerges later than possessive ownership behavior in children. (similarity 0.85)
• Humans may extend kin-based sharing rules to strangers by treating them as context-dependent relatives. (similarity 0.81)
• A fast automatic sense of ownership arises from proximity, discovery, and contact. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Sharing emerges later than possessive ownership behavior in children. #expands (0.85) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 588
• Humans may extend kin-based sharing rules to strangers by treating them as context-dependent relatives. #expands (0.72) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 285