PubMed · 9130853
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M A Sandquist. 1996. Do not go gently.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9130853/
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The authors investigated the relationship between children's ability to take the social perspective of another and their use of the causal attribution principle known as discounting in assessing others' kindness in helping. The participants (N = 153), 7 to 16 years old, were interviewed in a township bordering Johannesburg. Each participant was administered 2 perspective-taking tasks and a series of vignettes, based on prosocial versus self-interested motives, assessing perceptions of kindness in helping. A significant relationship was established at p < .01 between social perspective-taking ability and use of discounting, such that participants at higher perspective-taking levels judged helpful behavior as significantly less kind than did their peers when the behavior was motivated by self-interest. This finding is interpreted in terms of literature suggesting that advances in perspective taking facilitate the recognition of the manipulative function of externally offered incentives. Observations are made regarding the cross-cultural investigation of these variables.
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After analysing their concept of humanitarian plastic surgery, the authors present their personal experience which started in the 1970s, concerning two aspects: in the field (Burkina-Faso, Mali, Niger) and in Geneva, Switzerland, where the more difficult cases are operated. They illustrate their approach by a clinical case of sequelae of noma. They analyse the problems and/or questions raised by humanitarian plastic surgery: sufficient training, choice of surgical techniques, postoperative follow-up, assessment of the results obtained, possible innovations.