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SCIENCE
Volume 328, Issue 5982, Pages 1176-1178Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1187300
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- Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) at the University of Oslo
- Research Council of Norway [185831]
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Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people's fairness preferences is limited. The dictator game has been the standard experimental design for studying fairness preferences, but it only captures a situation where there is broad agreement that fairness requires equality. In real life, people often disagree on what is fair because they disagree on whether individual achievements, luck, and efficiency considerations of what maximizes total benefits can justify inequalities. We modified the dictator game to capture these features and studied how inequality acceptance develops in adolescence. We found that as children enter adolescence, they increasingly view inequalities reflecting differences in individual achievements, but not luck, as fair, whereas efficiency considerations mainly play a role in late adolescence.
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