When Getting Something Good is Bad: Even Three-year-olds React to Inequality

Social Development

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 154-170

  Lobue, Vanessa ^a   Nishida, Tracy ^a   Chiong, Cynthia ^a   Deloache, Judy S ^a   Haidt, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Equality; Fairness; Moral development; Reciprocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650372033     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2009.00560.x     Document Type: Article

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