Children's understanding of equity in the context of inequality

MT Rizzo, M Killen - British Journal of Developmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of a pre‐existing resource inequality, the concerns for strict equality (allocating
the same number of resources to all recipients) conflict with the concerns for equity …

Children weigh equity and efficiency in making allocation decisions: Evidence from the US, Israel, and China

S Choshen-Hillel, Z Lin, A Shaw - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2020 - Elsevier
When children divide resources between others, their decisions generally follow principles
of equity (ie, equal pay for equal work) and efficiency (ie, maximizing available resources) …

Interplay between different forms of power and meritocratic considerations shapes fairness perceptions

G Lois, A Riedl - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Power imbalance often leads to unequal allocations. However, it remains largely unknown
how different forms of power and meritocratic considerations interact to shape fairness …

Do children distinguish between resource inequalities with individual versus structural origins?

MT Rizzo, L Elenbaas, KE Vanderbilt - Child development, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated children's ability to distinguish between resource inequalities with
individual versus structural origins. Children (3‐to 8‐years‐old; N= 93) were presented with …

Fair resource allocation among children and adolescents: The role of group and developmental processes

A Rutland, M Killen - Child Development Perspectives, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The fair exchange of resources provides a basis for developing morality, yet research has
rarely examined the role of group processes that are central to children's world. In this …

Emotional reactions to unfairness

CM Gonzalez, TR Tyler - Advances in the psychology of justice …, 2007 - books.google.com
Much psychological research has examined how people respond to receiving fair or unfair
outcomes, experiencing fair or unfair decision making procedures, or being treated fairly or …

One for me, two for you: Agency increases children's satisfaction with disadvantageous inequity

T Gordon-Hecker, A Shaw, S Choshen-Hillel - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Children are notoriously inequity averse: they tend to respond negatively when someone
else receives more than them for the same work. Here we suggest that children's inequity …

Increased neural responses to unfairness in a loss context

X Guo, L Zheng, L Zhu, J Li, Q Wang, Z Dienes, Z Yang - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
Unfairness plays an important role in economic decision making. This fMRI study sought to
investigate how the loss and the gain contexts could modulate behavioral and brain …

Do animals have a sense of fairness

K McAuliffe, LR Santos - Atlas of moral psychology, 2018 - books.google.com
One hallmark of human morality is our strong sense of fairness. People sacrifice absolute
rewards to ensure that rewards are distributed fairly. Indeed, a large body of work in …

Costly fairness in children is influenced by who is watching.

K McAuliffe, PR Blake, F Warneken - Developmental Psychology, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Advantageous inequity aversion emerges relatively late in child development, yet the
mechanisms explaining its late emergence are poorly understood. Here, we ask whether …