Children's recognition of fairness and others' welfare in a resource allocation task: Age related changes

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1307-1317

  Rizzo, Michael T ^a   Elenbaas, Laura ^a   Cooley, Shelby ^b   Killen, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Community Center for Education Results ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fairness; Moral judgment; Others' welfare; Resource allocation; Resource type

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECOGNITION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REWARD; THINKING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REWARD; THINKING;

EID: 84978418490     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/dev0000134     Document Type: Article

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