Research has shown that both ingroup bias and concern for procedural justice emerge early
in development; however, these concerns can conflict. We investigated whether 6-to 8-year …

Adults prefer fair processes (“procedural justice”) over equal outcomes (“distributive justice”).
This preference impacts their judgments of others in addition to their willingness to …

How do young children develop a concept of equity? Infants prefer dividing resources
equally and expect others to make such distributions. Between the ages of 3–8, children …

Abstract Emotion as Social Information Theory claims that in an ambiguous situation, people
rely on others' emotions to make sense of the level of fairness encountered. We tested …

The present study investigated preschoolers' multiple sociomoral considerations (equality,
equity, and perpetuating inequality) in a third‐party context of social inequality. Using a …

Fairness is a comprehensive strategy that takes into consideration of self-interest and other
people's interests. The development of fairness norms, that is, using certain rules to …

Studies on development and fairness judgments in resource allocations have mainly
addressed the distribution of reward. However, the distribution of responsibility also requires …

Children's moral judgments of resource distributions as having “fair” or “unfair” origins play
an important role in early social cognition. What factors shape these judgments? The …

This study examined children's emotion attributions and moral judgements to hypothetical
procedural justice outcomes when the candidates were equal in merit but different in need …

By age 6, children typically share an equal number of resources between themselves and
others. However, fairness involves not merely that each person receive an equal number of …