The influence of counterfactual comparison on fairness in gain-loss contexts

Q Li, C Wang, J Taxer, Z Yang, Y Zheng… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Fairness perceptions may be affected by counterfactual comparisons. Although certain
studies using a two-player ultimatum game (UG) have shown that comparison with the …

Why do children punish? Fair outcomes matter more than intent in children's second-and third-party punishment

RM Bernhard, JW Martin, F Warneken - Journal of Experimental Child …, 2020 - Elsevier
Humans punish fairness violations both as victims and as impartial third parties, which can
maintain cooperative behavior. However, it is unknown whether similar motivations underlie …

Fairness informs social decision making in infancy

K Lucca, J Pospisil, JA Sommerville - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The ability to reason about fairness plays a defining role in the development of morality.
Thus, researchers have long been interested in understanding when and how a sensitivity to …

Five-year-olds understand fair as equal in a mini-ultimatum game

M Wittig, K Jensen, M Tomasello - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2013 - Elsevier
In studies of children's resource distribution, it is almost always the case that “fair” means an
equal amount for all. In the mini-ultimatum game, players are confronted with situations in …

The effect of hunger on children's sharing behavior and fairness preferences

E Huppert, A Shaw, J Decety - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
How does feeling hungry affect children's sharing and evaluations of others' moral decision
making? To examine this question, we gave 4-to 9-year-old children the opportunity to share …

Does third-party punishment in children aim at equality?

Y Lee, F Warneken - Developmental Psychology, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Third-party punishment has been regarded as an important mechanism to promote fairness.
Although previous research has shown that children aged 6 and older punish unfair …

The origins of infants' fairness concerns and links to prosocial behavior

JA Sommerville, EA Enright - Current opinion in psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Infants expect resources to be distributed equally to recipients.•Infants evaluate
individuals based on their adherence to fairness norms.•Sharing experience may drive the …

Exploring disadvantageous inequality aversion in children: how cost and discrepancy influence decision-making

A Williams, C Moore - Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
This research examined disadvantageous inequality aversion in 4-and 6-year-old children.
Using the resource allocation paradigm, we explored how inequality aversion was …

Young children selectively ignore quality to promote self-interest

L Zhao, W Sun, X Jia, X He, Y Liu, K Lee, G Fu… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although there has been extensive research on how children distribute resources with
respect to quantity, little is known about how these decisions are affected by resource …

Disentangling contributions of process elements to the fair process effect: A policy-capturing approach

AL Sinclair - 2003 - search.proquest.com
Recent research on organizational justice suggests 3 elements of process-related justice:
procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice. Early research on the fair process effect …