Moritz Köster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3883686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moritz Köster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moritz |
| FAMILY NAME | Köster |
| SIGNATURE | KOSTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9951-7741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Helping infants to help
62, 29 females, 33 males). We assessed maternal socialization goals via questionnaires, scaffolding strategies during a requested helping task, and infant prosocial behavior through both requested and spontaneous helping tasks. Scaffolding was more assertive in the Ugandan samples compared with those in the United Kingdom, where scaffolding was more deliberate. Maternal assertiveness positively predicted both spontaneous and requested helping at …
Culture-specific socialization in the first year predicts infants’ prosocial development at the end of the second year
In a series of two studies, we investigated the role of culture-specific parenting practices in the early development of prosocial behavior. In a first, cross-cultural study, we examined maternal scaffolding during task assignment in a German sample ( n = 68) and a Japanese sample ( n = 87) when infants were 10 and 16 months old. We identified that culture-specific scaffolding-deliberate scaffolding in Germany and sensitive scaffolding in Japan-e…
Maternal Socialization Goals and Children’s Requested Behaviors
This study examined possible associations between variables related to maternal socialization goals and the manifestation of requested behaviors among children living in a Brazilian rural community, in order to answer the following question: Is there any correlation between maternal goals and the manifestation of requested behaviors in their children? A total of 39 mother-child dyads participated in the study and the children were aged between 18…
Mealtime conversations between parents and their 2-year-old children in five cultural contexts
Children all over the world learn language, yet the contexts in which they do so vary substantially. This variation needs to be systematically quantified to build robust and generalizable theories of language acquisition. We compared communicative interactions between parents and their 2-year-old children ( N = 99 families) during mealtime across five cultural settings (Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Germany, and Japan) and coded the amount of talk …
Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts
Making Sense of the World
For human infants, the first years after birth are a period of intense exploration—getting to understand their own competencies in interaction with a complex physical and social environment. In contemporary neuroscience, the predictive-processing framework has been proposed as a general working principle of the human brain, the optimization of predictions about the consequences of one’s own actions, and sensory inputs from the environment. Howeve…
Why do infants help? A simple action reveals a complex phenomenon
Maternal socialization goals and the spontaneous prosocial behavior of children in rural contexts
The purpose of this descriptive-correlational study was to investigate possible associations between maternal socialization goals and prosocial behavior (spontaneous helping) among children living in a rural context. This study involved 39 dyads of mothers, aged 17 to 48 years (M = 24.28 years, SD = 5.97), and their children, with a mean age of 24 months. The data collection included a Sociocultural Sociodemographic Characterization Questionnaire…
Mealtime conversations between parents and their 2-year-old children in five cultural contexts
Children all over the world learn language, yet the contexts in which they do so vary substantially. This variation needs to be systematically quantified to build robust and generalizable theories of language acquisition. We compared communicative interactions between parents and their 2-year-old children ( N = 99 families) during mealtime across five cultural settings (Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Germany, and Japan) and coded the amount of talk …
Maternal socialization goals and the spontaneous prosocial behavior of children in rural contexts
The purpose of this descriptive-correlational study was to investigate possible associations between maternal socialization goals and prosocial behavior (spontaneous helping) among children living in a rural context. This study involved 39 dyads of mothers, aged 17 to 48 years (M = 24.28 years, SD = 5.97), and their children, with a mean age of 24 months. The data collection included a Sociocultural Sociodemographic Characterization Questionnaire…
Why do infants help? A simple action reveals a complex phenomenon
Making Sense of the World
For human infants, the first years after birth are a period of intense exploration—getting to understand their own competencies in interaction with a complex physical and social environment. In contemporary neuroscience, the predictive-processing framework has been proposed as a general working principle of the human brain, the optimization of predictions about the consequences of one’s own actions, and sensory inputs from the environment. Howeve…
Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts
Maternal Socialization Goals and Children’s Requested Behaviors
This study examined possible associations between variables related to maternal socialization goals and the manifestation of requested behaviors among children living in a Brazilian rural community, in order to answer the following question: Is there any correlation between maternal goals and the manifestation of requested behaviors in their children? A total of 39 mother-child dyads participated in the study and the children were aged between 18…
Mealtime conversations between parents and their 2-year-old children in five cultural contexts
Children all over the world learn language, yet the contexts in which they do so vary substantially. This variation needs to be systematically quantified to build robust and generalizable theories of language acquisition. We compared communicative interactions between parents and their 2-year-old children ( N = 99 families) during mealtime across five cultural settings (Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Germany, and Japan) and coded the amount of talk …
Culture-specific socialization in the first year predicts infants’ prosocial development at the end of the second year
In a series of two studies, we investigated the role of culture-specific parenting practices in the early development of prosocial behavior. In a first, cross-cultural study, we examined maternal scaffolding during task assignment in a German sample ( n = 68) and a Japanese sample ( n = 87) when infants were 10 and 16 months old. We identified that culture-specific scaffolding-deliberate scaffolding in Germany and sensitive scaffolding in Japan-e…
Helping infants to help
62, 29 females, 33 males). We assessed maternal socialization goals via questionnaires, scaffolding strategies during a requested helping task, and infant prosocial behavior through both requested and spontaneous helping tasks. Scaffolding was more assertive in the Ugandan samples compared with those in the United Kingdom, where scaffolding was more deliberate. Maternal assertiveness positively predicted both spontaneous and requested helping at …
Developmental psychology (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works) · Socialization (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Prosocial behavior (3 works) · Child development (2 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (2 works)