[HTML][HTML] Win-win or lose-lose: Children prefer the form of equality

R Ma, Y Chen, Q Xu, N Wu - Acta Psychologica, 2024 - Elsevier
In middle childhood, children's sense of fairness further develops, they are willing to pay a
cost to maintain equality. Win-win and lose-lose are two forms of equality. Win-win equality …

Children discard a resource to avoid inequity.

A Shaw, KR Olson - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Elucidating how inequity aversion (a tendency to dislike and correct unequal outcomes)
functions as one develops is important to understanding more complex fairness …

Children's sense of fairness as equal respect

JM Engelmann, M Tomasello - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2019 - cell.com
One influential view holds that children's sense of fairness emerges at age 8 and is rooted in
the development of an aversion to unequal resource distributions. Here, we suggest two …

Children's developing understanding of merit in a distributive justice context

JY Noh - Journal of Child and family studies, 2020 - Springer
Objectives Distributive justice is an important component of morality given that it directly
reflects how individuals reason regarding fairness and others' welfare. Thus far, substantial …

[HTML][HTML] Preschoolers consider (absent) others when choosing a distribution procedure

P Grocke, F Rossano, M Tomasello - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
This study investigated how the presence of others and anticipated distributions for self
influence children's fairness-related decisions in two different socio-moral contexts. In the …

[HTML][HTML] Do infants in the first year of life expect equal resource allocations?

M Buyukozer Dawkins, S Sloane… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recent research has provided converging evidence, using multiple tasks, of sensitivity to
fairness in the second year of life. In contrast, findings in the first year have been mixed …

[HTML][HTML] Reward type influences adults' rejections of inequality in a task designed for children

K McAuliffe, N Benjamin, F Warneken - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
In the context of economic games, adults sacrifice money to avoid unequal outcomes,
showing so-called inequity aversion. Child-friendly adaptations of these games have shown …

[HTML][HTML] Social information affects adults' evaluation of fairness in distributions: An ERP approach

M Ishikawa, Y Park, M Kitazaki, S Itakura - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The sense of fairness has been observed in early infancy. Because many studies of fairness
in adults have used economic games such as the Ultimatum Game, it has been difficult to …

Giving a larger amount or a larger proportion: Stimulus format impacts children's social evaluations.

MA Hurst, A Shaw, N Chernyak… - Developmental …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Young children show remarkably sophisticated abilities to evaluate others. Yet their abilities
to engage in proportional moral evaluation undergoes protracted development. Namely …

Just rewards: Children and adults equate accidental inequity with intentional unfairness

E Donovan, D Kelemen - Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2011 - brill.com
Humans expect resources to be distributed fairly. They also show biases to construe all acts
as intentional. This study investigates whether every unequal distribution is initially assumed …