Children's and adolescents' intuitive judgements about distributive justice: Integrating need, effort, and luck

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 481-498

  Kienbaum, Jutta ^a   Wilkening, Friedrich ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Distributive justice; Information integration; Middle childhood; Moral development

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149160042     PISSN: 17405629     EISSN: 17405610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17405620701497299     Document Type: Article

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