Expectations of Helping Behaviors
Humans require social connection for an overall positive wellbeing, and consequently friendship is a large factor in that experience. Maintaining friendships requires people to meet expectations, including the expectations that friends provide help when one of them is in need. The current study examines whether children, ranging from 2.5-3 year olds, expect friends to comfort each other when one is in need. Children watched a central character interact with a friend and a nonfriend. Then all three characters were on the same screen and the protagonist fell offscreen and got hurt. We measured where children looked during this test video. The current presentation will focus on how I learned to create an anticipatory looking study online and the ways we will code this data in order to address our research question.