"I had so much it didn't seem fair" Eight-year-olds reject two forms of inequity

Cognition

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 215-224

  Blake, Peter R ^a   McAuliffe, Katherine ^b  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Economic games; Fairness; Inequity aversion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVERSION; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INEQUITY AVERSION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 79959213509     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Aloise-Young P.A. The development of self-presentation: Self-promotion in 6-to 10-year-old children. Social Cognition 1993, 11:201-222.
2. Banerjee R. Audience effects on self-presentation in childhood. Social Development 2002, 11:487-507.
3. Banerjee R. Children's understanding of self-presentational behavior: Links with mental-state reasoning and the attribution of embarrassment. Merrill Palmer Quarterly 2002, 48:378-404.
4. Banerjee R., Yuill N. Children's explanations for self-presentational behaviour. European Journal of Social Psychology 1999, 29:105-111.
5. Benenson J.F., Pascoe J., Radmore N. Children's altruistic behavior in the dictator game. Evolution and Human Behavior 2007, 28:168-175.
6. Bennett M., Yeeles C. Children's understanding of the self-presentational strategies of ingratiation and self-promotion. European Journal of Social Psychology 1990, 20:455-461.
7. Birch L.L., Billman J. Preschool children's food sharing with friends and acquaintances. Child Development 1986, 57:387-395.
8. Blake P.R., Rand D.G. Currency value moderates equity preference among young children. Evolution and Human Behavior 2010, 31:210-218.
9. Blount S. When social outcomes aren't fair: The effect of causal attributions on preferences. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 1995, 63:131-144.
10. Camerer C.F. Behavioral game theory: Experiments in strategic interaction 2003, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
11. Damon W. The social world of the child 1977, Jossey-Bass, London.
12. Davidson M.C., Amso D., Anderson L.C., Diamond A. Development of cognitive control and executive functions from 4 to 13 years: Evidence from manipulations of memory, inhibition, and task switching. Neuropsychologia 2006, 44:2037-2078.
13. Dawes C.T., Fowler J.H., Johnson T., McElreath R., Smirnov O. Egalitarian motives in humans. Nature 2007, 446:794-796.
14. Dreber A., Rand D.G., Fudenberg D., Nowak M.A. Winners don't punish. Nature 2008, 452:348-351.
15. Falk A., Fehr E., Fischbacher U. On the nature of fair behavior. Economic Inquiry 2003, 41:20-26.
16. Falk A., Fischbacher U. A theory of reciprocity. Games and Economic Behavior 2006, 54:293-315.
17. Fehr E., Bernhard H., Rockenbach B. Egalitarianism in young children. Nature 2008, 454:1079-1083.
18. Fehr E., Fischbacher U. The nature of human altruism. Nature 2003, 425:785-791.
19. Fehr E., Schmidt K. A theory of fairness, competition and cooperation. Quarterly Journal of Economics 1999, 114:817-868.
20. Greenwald A.G., Nosek B.A., Banaji M.R. Understanding and using the implicit association test: I. An improved scoring algorithm. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2003, 85:197-216.
21. Gummerum M., Hanoch Y., Keller M., Parsons K., Hummel A. Preschoolers' allocations in the dictator game: The role of moral emotions. Journal of Economic Psychology 2009, 31:25-34.
22. Guth W., Schmittberger R., Schwarze B. An experimental analysis of ultimatum bargaining. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 1982, 3:367-388.
23. Hill V., Pillow B.H. Children's understanding of reputations. Journal of Genetic Psychology 2006, 167:137-157.
24. Hook J.G., Cook T.D. Equity theory and the cognitive ability of children. Psychological Bulletin 1979, 86:429-445.
25. LoBue, V., Nishida, T., Chiong, C., DeLoache, J. S., & Haidt, J. (2010). When getting something good is bad: Even three-year-olds react to inequity. Social Development. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9507.2009.00560.x.
26. Loewenstein G.F., Thompson L., Bazerman M.H. Social utility and decision making in interpersonal contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1989, 57:426-441.
27. Moore C. Fairness in children's resource allocation depends on the recipient. Psychological Science 2009, 20:944-948.
28. Murnigham J.K., Saxon M.S. Ultimatum bargaining by children and adults. Journal of Economic Psychology 1998, 19:415-445.
29. Nowak M. Five rules for the evolution of cooperation. Science 2006, 314:1560-1563.
30. Nowak M.A., Page K.M., Sigmund K. Fairness versus reason in the ultimatum game. Science 2000, 289:1773-1775.
31. Nowak M.A., Sigmund K. Evolution of indirect reciprocity. Nature 2005, 437:1291-1298.
32. Piaget J. The moral judgment of the child 1932, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., London.
33. Richerson, P. J., & Boyd, R. (2005). Not by genes alone: How culture transformed human evolution. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
34. Rueda M.R., Fan J., McCandliss B.D., Halparin J.D., Gruber D.B., Lercari L.P., et al. Development of attentional networks in childhood. Neuropsychologia 2004, 42:1029-1040.
35. Rueda M.R., Rothbart M.K., McCandliss B.D., Saccomanno L., Posner M.I. Training, maturation, and genetic influences on the development of executive attention. PNAS 2005, 102:14931-14936.
36. Sutter M. Outcomes versus intentions: On the nature of fair behavior and its development with age. Journal of Economic Psychology 2007, 28:69-78.
37. Takagishi H., Kameshima S., Shug J., Koizumi M., Yamagishi T. Theory of mind enhances preference for fairness. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2010, 105:130-137.
38. Thompson C., Barresi J., Moore C. The development of future-oriented prudence and altruism in preschoolers. Cognitive Development 1997, 12:199-212.