儿童在新环境中调整行为以反映当地亲社会规范

Stark cultural variation in prosocial behavior, as elicited with economic experiments, is evident despite the high mobility of humans. Conformity to local norms has been posited to play an integral role in the maintenance of this variation. Experiments suggest that adults indeed rapidly infer pro- and antisocial norms in new or altered social environments and adjust their behavior to reflect the inferred norms. Studies of the ontogeny of prosocial behavior show that by middle childhood, children’s prosocial behavior conforms to that of local adults. Furthermore, by this stage, children are sus