Children’s collaboration induces fairness rather than generosity

2017/08/08 by John Corbit, Katherine McAuliffe, Tara C. Callaghan +3 · 77 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Demographic economics #Demography #Developmental psychology #Disadvantage #Economics #Equity (law) #Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies #Generosity #Inequality #Inequity aversion #Political science #Population #Prosocial behavior #Psychology #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Social preferences #Social psychology #Sociology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.07.006

published in Cognition 168, 344-356 (Elsevier BV)

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

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