Can a subtle linguistic cue that invokes the self motivate children to help? In two experiments, 3- to 6-year-old children (N = 149) were exposed to the idea of "being a helper" (noun condition) or "helping" (verb condition). Noun wording fosters the perception that a behavior reflects an identity-the kind of person one is. Both when children interacted with an adult who referenced "being a hel...

Undergraduates (N=216) participated in a managerial inbasket simulation while being periodically interrupted by videotaped depictions of a subordinate performing at 1 of 2 levels of task performance, helping and voice. After completion of the simulation, participants made decisions about how much of a pay increase to provide the subordinate, whether to promote him and whether to recommend him f...

The acquisition of the passive in English poses a learnability problem. Most transitive verbs have passive forms (e.g., k i c k / w a s k i c k e d b y ) , tempting the child to form a productive rule of passivization deriving passive participles from active forms. However, some verbs cannot be passivized (e.g. c o s t / * w a s c o s t b y ) . Given that children do not receive negative eviden...

This thesis aims to probe into the relationship between language transfer and the three error types of Chinese ESL learners’ acquisition of passive voice. On the basis of analysis of the result of a self-designed test, I come to a conclusion that under-passivization is the main characteristic of Chinese learner’s passive acquisition and negative transfer has a strong effect on Chinese learners’...

Abstract Background Health care access is an important driver of population health, and factors beyond health also drive outcomes. Recognizing the importance social determinants (SDOH), different actors in care, public service sectors are increasingly collaborating to improve outcomes communities. To support such collaboration, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation developed a cross-sector alignment t...