In defence of situational morality: genetic, dispositional and situational determinants of children’s donating to charity

Figures & data

Figure 1 Attachment‐based developmental model of moral behaviour

Figure 2 Proportions of the children donating one, two, three etc. coins after the UNICEF promotional film (self) and after the experimenter’s prompt (probed) in the two Leiden studies: LLES (left) and LLTS (right)

Table 1. Behaviour genetic modelling of donating behaviour

Model	A (genetics)	C (common environment)	E (unique environment)	Change in fit (χ^2 )	Change in df	p
ACE	.00 (.00−.62)	.45 (.00−.72)	.55 (.35−.75)
CE^1	–	.45 (.25−.72)	.55 (.42−.75)	0	1	1.00
AE	.53 (.29−.79)	–	.47 (.32−.70)	3.31	1	.069
E	–	–	1.00	20.58	2	< .01
Note: 95% confidence intervals in brackets; n (MZ) = 30 pairs, r = .45; n (DZ) = 61 pairs, r = .44; ^1preferred model.