Children reject inequity out of spite

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  McAuliffe, Katherine ^a,c   Blake, Peter R ^b   Warneken, Felix ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Fairness; Frustration; Inequity aversion; Social cognition; Spite

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

CHILD; HUMAN; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

CHILD; HUMANS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 84924682587     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0743     Document Type: Article

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