Young Children's Development of Fairness Preference

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01274

	Young Children's Development of Fairness Preference
	Li, Jing1 ; Wang, Wen2 ; Yu, Jing3 ; Zhu, Liqi1 ; Zhu, LQ
通讯作者邮箱	zhulq@psych.ac.cn
摘要	Fairness is one of the most important foundations of morality and may have played a key role in the evolution of cooperation in humans beings. As an important type of fairness concern, inequity aversion is the preference for fairness and the resistance to inequitable outcomes. To examine the early development of fairness preference in young children, sixty 2- and 3-year-old children were recruited to examine young children's preferences for fairness using a forced choice paradigm. We tested how toddlers acted when they took charge of distributing resources (two candies) to themselves and others and when they were the recipients of both other-advantageous distribution and self -advantageous distribution. Different alternative options were paired with the same fair option in the two conditions. In the other -advantageous condition, children had fewer resources in the alternative options than others, whereas their resources in the alternative options were greater than others' in the self -advantageous condition. The results showed that more children displayed fairness preferences when they distributed resources between two friends than when they distributed resources between a friend and themselves. In both scenarios, 3-year-old children were more likely to demonstrate fairness preference than 2-year-old children. The findings suggest that inequity aversion develops in young children and increases with age over the course of early childhood. When they were recipients, there was a trend in young children's preference for fairness in the other advantageous condition compared with the self -advantageous condition. This suggests that children might tend to be more likely to display inequity aversion when they are in a disadvantageous position.
关键词	Fairness Inequity Aversion Young Children Forced Choice Paradigm Distribution
学科领域	发展心理学
	2016-08-30
语种	英语
DOI	10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01274
发表期刊	FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN	1664-1078
卷号	7 期号:0 页码:0
期刊论文类型	实证研究
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收录类别	SSCI
WOS关键词	INEQUITY AVERSION ; PRESCHOOL-CHILDREN ; ECONOMIC MAN ; BEHAVIOR ; ALTRUISM ; JUSTICE ; GAME ; COOPERATION ; CHIMPANZEES ; COMPETITION
WOS标题词	Social Sciences
WOS研究方向	Psychology
WOS类目	Psychology, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000382128100001
引用统计	被引频次：16[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	https://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/48307
专题	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China; 2.Michigan State Univ, Coll Social Sci, Human Dev & Family Studies, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA; 3.Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Dept Psychol, Baltimore, MD 21228 USA
第一作者单位	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Jing,Wang, Wen,Yu, Jing,et al. Young Children's Development of Fairness Preference[J]. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,2016,7(0):0.
APA	Li, Jing,Wang, Wen,Yu, Jing,Zhu, Liqi,&Zhu, LQ.(2016).Young Children's Development of Fairness Preference.FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,7(0),0.
MLA	Li, Jing,et al."Young Children's Development of Fairness Preference".FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY 7.0(2016):0.