The research involved almost 100 babies, some of whom shared their fruit with researchers without being asked.
t, researchers in the test group feigned dropping the fruit on the tray, then tried and failed to grab at the fruit. The team thought this would signal to the child that the adult wanted the food.
Among the control group, only 4 percent of the children retrieved the piece of fruit and gave it to the researchers, compared with 58 percent, or over half, in the test group. Next, the team explored if children would be altruistic by giving up their fruit when it was at a cost to themselves. The first set of experiments was repeated with a separate group of kids before their snack time, when they were likely to be hungry. Similarly, of the total, 37 percent gave the fruit to the researcher, compared with none in the control group.
The experiments were repeated four times, with different fruits each time. Each time, children helped the researcher, despite not knowing them. Infants with siblings and infants from Hispanic/Latino and from Asian families shared more of the fruit, the team found.
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