Ingroup Bias Does Not Influence Inequity Aversion in Children

Autor/inn/en	Gonzalez, Gorana; Blake, Peter R.; Dunham, Yarrow; McAuliffe, Katherine
Titel	Ingroup Bias Does Not Influence Inequity Aversion in Children
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 56 (2020) 6, S.1080-1091 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000924
Schlagwörter	Group Dynamics; Justice; Children; Cooperation; Social Development; Social Attitudes; Games; Connecticut; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gruppendynamik; Gerechtigkeit; Child; Kind; Kinder; Co-operation; Kooperation; Soziale Entwicklung; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Game; Spiel; Spiele; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Ingroup favoritism influences third-party norm enforcement: Third-party punishers are more lenient when an ingroup member has been unfair. By contrast, in 2-party contexts, where punishers are the victims of unfairness, group bias effects are absent or inconsistent. Thus, group bias appears to be particularly influential when enforcing fairness among others, but less so when protecting oneself from unfairness. This would have implications for theories of how cooperation and intergroup cognition interact, but a more direct empirical test is lacking. To this end, developmental data are particularly useful as they can tell us whether and if so how group bias and fairness norm enforcement are related from their first emergence. Using a minimal groups manipulation, we induced ingroup bias in 6- to 9-year-olds and tested their willingness to reject disadvantageous (more for you) and advantageous (more for me) resource allocations when paired with in- and outgroup members. Group bias did not affect children's rejections of unfair allocations, although they reported that it was worse when an outgroup member had more. Our findings suggest that ingroup bias does not influence children's costly endorsement of equality, indicating that children perceive the equality norm to be indiscriminate and enforceable across group boundaries. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01