"I had so much it didn't seem fair": Eight-year-olds reject two forms of inequity |
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Authors: | Blake Peter R McAuliffe Katherine |
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Affiliation: | aGraduate School of Education, Harvard University, 510 Larsen Hall, 14 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;bHuman Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, United States |
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Abstract: | Research using economic games has demonstrated that adults are willing to sacrifice rewards in order to prevent inequity both when they receive less than a social partner (disadvantageous inequity) and when they receive more (advantageous inequity). We investigated the development of both forms of inequity aversion in 4- to 8-year-olds using a novel economic game in which children could accept or reject unequal allocations of candy with an unfamiliar peer. The results showed that 4- to 7-year-olds rejected disadvantageous offers, but accepted advantageous offers. By contrast, 8-year-olds rejected both forms of inequity. These results suggest that two distinct mechanisms underlie the development of the two forms of inequity aversion. |
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Keywords: | Inequity aversion Fairness Economic games Cooperation |
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