Children's developing understanding of legitimate reasons for allocating resources unequally

Cognitive Development

Volumn 37, Issue , 2016, Pages 42-52

  Schmidt, Marco F H ^a,b   Svetlova, Margarita ^b   Johe, Jana ^b   Tomasello, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributive justice; Fairness; Inequality; Moral development; Morality; Reasons; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949425199     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2015.11.001     Document Type: Article

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