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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 86, Issue 1, Pages 145-158Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12290
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- European Research Council
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The aim of the current study was to examine the development of equity preferences across adolescence, for boys and girls separately. Participants from 8 to 18years old (M=14.09years; N=1,216) played four economic allocation games. Analyses revealed a decrease in equity preferences with age and this decrease was stronger for boys than for girls. There was also an age-related increase in the preference for efficient outcomes (i.e., maximization of total available resources), which was again stronger for boys than for girls. Overall, although equity remains as a strong social norm, adolescents are decreasingly strict in adhering to the equity norm and show increasing flexibility in equity preferences.
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