Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 132, Issue -, Pages 240-246Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.12.007
Keywords
Fairness; Development; Cognitive development; Resource allocation; Cross-cultural differences; Collectivism
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Recent work showed the presence of strong forms of inequity aversion in young children. When presented with an uneven number of items, children would rather tend to throw one item away than to distribute them unequally between two anonymous others. The current study examined whether or not this pattern is a universal part of typical development by investigating 6- and 7-year-old Ugandan children. Results revealed that the Ugandan children, in contrast to their U.S. peers, tended to distribute the resources unequally rather than to throw the remaining resource away. This points to cross-cultural differences in the development of children's fairness-related decision making. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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