caa a22 4500 445351454 CHVBK 20180317142845.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00221-011-2676-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00221-011-2676-1 Whom to ask for help? Children's developing understanding of other people's action capabilities [Elektronische Daten] [Markus Paulus, Chris Moore] We often rely on other people's help to accomplish tasks and to attain goals. People, however, differ in their physical action capabilities. Some persons are therefore better able to provide help than others. We investigated 2.5-, 3.5-, and 5-year-old children's ability to take other person's action capabilities in a helping situation into account. To this end, they observed a protagonist who needed the help of friends to accomplish several tasks. For each task, two friends were available, but only one was physically able to provide the help. Children were asked to indicate, which partner the protagonist will ask for help. Our results showed a developmental effect with children in the older two groups performing significantly better than those in the youngest group. Additionally, we found evidence that the 5-year-olds outperformed the younger age groups in their ability to justify their choice. Our findings thus suggest that children's ability to consider others' physical action capabilities in helping situations develops around 3years of age. The results are interpreted in terms of children's ability to perceive others' affordances. The implication of these findings for theories on the development of action understanding and joint action are discussed. The Author(s), 2011 Prosocial behavior nationallicence Development nationallicence Helping nationallicence Action capability nationallicence Joint action nationallicence Paulus Markus Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut Moore Chris Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada aut Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 211/3-4(2011-06-01), 593-600 0014-4819 211:3-4<593 2011 211 221 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2676-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2676-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Paulus Markus Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Moore Chris Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 211/3-4(2011-06-01), 593-600 0014-4819 211:3-4<593 2011 211 221 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer