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Julia W. Van de Vondervoort
Researcher at University of British Columbia
Publications - 20
Citations - 693
Julia W. Van de Vondervoort is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prosocial behavior & Moral development. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 19 publications receiving 499 citations. Previous affiliations of Julia W. Van de Vondervoort include University of Waterloo.
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Positive feelings reward and promote prosocial behavior.
TL;DR: New and classic evidence from both child and adult research is highlighted showing first, that various positive states prompt prosocial behavior, and second, prosocial action leads to positive states.
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Prosocial behavior leads to happiness in a small-scale rural society.
TL;DR: It is indicated that the emotional rewards of giving are detectable in people living in diverse societies and support the possibility that the hedonic benefits of generosity are universal.
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First possession, history, and young children's ownership judgments.
TL;DR: Two experiments show that this bias does not result from children directly inferring ownership from first possession; the experiments instead support an alternative account according to which the first possession bias reflects children's historical reasoning.
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Young children's understanding of ownership
TL;DR: For instance, this article found that children are sophisticated in their reasoning about ownership early in development and make a variety of judgments about ownership, including judgments about how ownership is acquired, who owns what, and ownership rights.
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Selectivity in Toddlers' Behavioral and Emotional Reactions to Prosocial and Antisocial Others.
TL;DR: Toddlers’ giving behaviors are responsive to recipient deservingness, but their after-the-fact emotional reactions areresponsive to giving acts themselves, revealing the possibility of a divergence in early prosociality.