Costly fairness in children is influenced by who is watching.
Katherine McAuliffe, Peter Blake, Felix Warneken
Abstract
= 134 pairs; Ages 8 and 9), we show that this effect is driven specifically by whether the affected peer partners can see the allocation and not by whether third-party peer observers witness the decision. Together, these results shed light on the factors influencing fairness development in childhood and, more specifically, suggest that advantageous inequity aversion is influenced by a desire to appear fair to those getting the short end of the stick. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
Topics & Concepts
Inequity aversionPsycINFOPsychologySocial psychologyWitnessDevelopmental psychologyInequalityMEDLINEMathematical analysisLawComputer scienceMathematicsPolitical scienceProgramming languagePsychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentEvolutionary Psychology and Human BehaviorSocial and Intergroup Psychology