Getting kids to share their toys is a never-ending battle, and compelling them to do so never seems to help.
New research suggests that allowing children to make a choice to sacrifice their own toys in order to share with someone else makes them share more in the future.
These experiments, conducted by psychological scientists Nadia Chernyak and Tamar Kushnir of Cornell University, suggest that sharing when given a difficult choice leads children to see themselves in a new, more beneficent light.
Perceiving themselves as people who like to share makes them more likely to act in a prosocial manner in the future.
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