The Development of Fairness Expectations and Prosocial Behavior in the Second Year of Life

Infancy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-66

  Sommerville, Jessica A ^a   Schmidt, Marco F H ^b   Yun, Jung Eun ^a   Burns, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; FAIRNESS EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MORALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIGMA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84871394960     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2012.00129.x     Document Type: Article

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