"That's not fair": Similarities and differences in distributive justice reasoning between American and Filipino children

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 493-514

  Carson, Alison S ^a   Banuazizi, Ali ^b  

^a MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptions of fairness; Distributive justice; Fifth graders; Moral development; Philippines; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949157713     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022108318134     Document Type: Article

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