Children punish third parties to satisfy both consequentialist and retributive motives

2020/11/23 by Julia Marshall, Daniel A. Yudkin, Daniel Yudkin +1 · 70 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Consequentialism #Economic Justice #Economics #Epistemology #Harm #Microeconomics #Philosophy #Psychology #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Punishment (psychology) #Retributive justice #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1038/s41562-020-00975-9

published in Nature Human Behaviour 5(3), 361-368 (Nature Portfolio)

openalex publication_date 2020/11/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

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