Children's physiological reactivity in emotion contexts and prosocial behavior

ConclusionsThese findings provide preliminary support for a nonlinear association between children's parasympathetic emotion reactivity and later prosocial behavior, and suggest that children's ANS regulation in sad emotion contexts may be particularly important for understanding prosocial development.

Source: Brain and Behavior - September 14, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Brianne R. Coulombe, Kristen L. Rudd, Tuppett M. Yates Tags: ORIGINAL RESEARCH Source Type: research