Abstract: The research on children’s sharing, including sharing beliefs, behaviors, and its influencing factors, doing after 1970s by Western and Chinese psychologists is reviewed. Three issues are concentrated: (1) development of sharing beliefs in children; (2) development of sharing behaviors, and the relationship between sharing beliefs and behaviors; (3) influencing factors included cognitive, emotional, and modeling observation. The authors believe that at present the Chinese psychologists should do more research about children’s sharing behaviors; the research should be do in depth and use more qualitative design.

Key words: sharing beliefs, sharing behavior, review.