Tablet applications as socializing platforms: The effects of prosocial touch screen applications on young children's prosocial behavior

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Highlights：

• Preschool children played a prosocial, violent, or neutral touch-screen application game.

• After playing, they were invited to engage in different kinds of prosocial tasks.

• The prosocial application game-play was associated with greater helping, sharing, and other types of prosocial behavior.

• Children with an immature ToM or with higher empathy showed greater increases in prosocial behavior after the prosocial app.

摘要

•Preschool children played a prosocial, violent, or neutral touch-screen application game.•After playing, they were invited to engage in different kinds of prosocial tasks.•The prosocial application game-play was associated with greater helping, sharing, and other types of prosocial behavior.•Children with an immature ToM or with higher empathy showed greater increases in prosocial behavior after the prosocial app.

论文关键词：Touch screen,Tablets,Children,Prosocial,Empathy,Theory-of-mind

论文评审过程：Received 12 May 2021, Revised 17 October 2021, Accepted 19 October 2021, Available online 20 October 2021, Version of Record 26 October 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107077