Preverbal infants’ reactions to third-party punishments and rewards delivered toward fair and unfair agents

2022/10/30 by Alessandra Geraci, Luca Surian · 53 citations
Psychology · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Distributive property #Inequality #Inequity aversion #Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Psychology #Punishment (psychology) #Social psychology #Ultimatum game

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105574

published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 226, 105574 (Elsevier BV)

openalex publication_date 2022/10/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Citations

• Do infants detect indirect reciprocity?
• Developmental Differences in Infants’ Fairness Expectations From 6 to 15 Months of Age
• Preverbal infants affirm third-party interventions that protect victims from aggressors
• Children punish third parties to satisfy both consequentialist and retributive motives
• Violations of expectation trigger infants to search for explanations
• Third-party punishment promotes fairness in children.
• Toddlers' interventions toward fair and unfair individuals
• Infants’ intention-based evaluations of distributive actions
• Attention-Getting and Attention-Holding Processes of Infant Visual Preferences
• Third-party punishment by preverbal infants

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