“I had so much it didn’t seem fair”: Eight-year-olds reject two forms of inequity

2011/06/06 by Peter R. Blake, Peter Blake, Katherine McAuliffe · 511 citations
Decision Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Child development #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Developmental psychology #Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies #Inequality #Inequity aversion #Psychology #Social preferences #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.04.006

published in Cognition 120(2), 215-224 (Elsevier BV)

openalex publication_date 2011/06/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25

Cited by

• Costly third-party punishment in young children
• Children’s collaboration induces fairness rather than generosity
• Toddlers' interventions toward fair and unfair individuals
• Etude longitudinale a partir d'un fichier de medecine generale, d'une cohorte de femmes suivies depuis l'age de 45 ans : le praticien, sa patiente et la menopause
• Children disassociate from antisocial in-group members
• Developmental patterns and computational mechanisms of school-aged children’s fairness-related decision making under social comparison
• Collaboration increases children’s normative concern for fairness
• Extrinsic incentives can shape inequity aversion in primary school children
• Why do children punish? Fair outcomes matter more than intent in children’s second- and third-party punishment
• One for me, two for you: Agency increases children's satisfaction with disadvantageous inequity
• Origins of understanding fair resource collection
• Fairness Preference of Preschoolers and the Effects of Family Background in China
• Stable intuition and the rise of deliberative prosociality in childhood
• Age differences of responders' decision-making in disadvantageous and advantageous inequality contexts in the ultimatum game: The role of social value orientation
• Infants reason about deserving agents: A test with distributive actions
• The Normative Turn in Early Moral Development
• Evolution of responses to (un)fairness
• Tokens of virtue: Replicating incentivized measures of children’s prosocial behavior with online methods and virtual resources
• The other side of the coin: oxytocin decreases the adherence to fairness norms. [europepmc]
• Serotonin modulates striatal responses to fairness and retaliation in humans. [europepmc]
• Anti-equality: social comparison in young children. [europepmc]
• Sharing and giving across adolescence: an experimental study examining the development of prosocial behavior. [europepmc]
• The influence of empathic concern on prosocial behavior in children. [europepmc]
• Social comparison mediates chimpanzees' responses to loss, not frustration. [europepmc]
• The early origins of human charity: developmental changes in preschoolers' sharing with poor and wealthy individuals. [europepmc]
• A construct divided: prosocial behavior as helping, sharing, and comforting subtypes. [europepmc]
• Neural correlates of advantageous and disadvantageous inequity in sharing decisions. [europepmc]
• Evolution of responses to (un)fairness. [europepmc]
• Children reject inequity out of spite. [europepmc]
• Selective and contagious prosocial resource donation in capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees and humans. [europepmc]
• Goal-directed, habitual and Pavlovian prosocial behavior. [europepmc]
• Group bias in cooperative norm enforcement. [europepmc]
• Reputation, a universal currency for human social interactions. [europepmc]
• Children's reasoning about distributive and retributive justice across development. [europepmc]
• Balancing the Fair Treatment of Others While Preserving Group Identity and Autonomy. [europepmc]
• Children's understanding of equity in the context of inequality. [europepmc]
• Rectifying social inequalities in a resource allocation task. [europepmc]
• Children's recognition of fairness and others' welfare in a resource allocation task: Age related changes. [europepmc]
• Developmental Differences in Infants' Fairness Expectations From 6 to 15 Months of Age. [europepmc]
• 'To the victor go the spoils': Infants expect resources to align with dominance structures. [europepmc]
• Fairness informs social decision making in infancy. [europepmc]
• Developmental Changes and Individual Differences in Trust and Reciprocity in Adolescence. [europepmc]
• Children's evaluations of individually and structurally based inequalities: The role of status. [europepmc]