@article{2ba5adb87c39434f8290855f9a207deb,
title = "When Helping Hurts: Children Think Groups That Receive Help Are Less Smart",
abstract = "Helping has many positive consequences for both helpers and recipients. However, in the present research, we considered a possible downside to receiving help: that it signals a deficiency. We investigated whether young children make inferences about intelligence from observing some groups of people receive help and other groups not. In a novel group paradigm, we show that children (4-6 years) think groups that receive help are less smart (n = 44) but not less nice (n = 45). Children also generalized their inferences about relative intelligence to new group members (n = 55; forced-choice-method). These results have implications for understanding how children develop stereotypes about intelligence as well as for educational practices that group children according to their ability.",
author = "Jellie Sierksma and Kristin Shutts",
note = "{\textcopyright} 2020 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development.",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1111/cdev.13351",
language = "English",
volume = "91",
pages = "715--723",
journal = "Child Development",
issn = "0009-3920",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "3",
}
