Collaboration Promotes Proportional Reasoning about Resource Distribution in Young Children

Autor/inn/en	Ng, Rowena; Heyman, Gail D.; Barner, David
Titel	Collaboration Promotes Proportional Reasoning about Resource Distribution in Young Children
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 47 (2011) 5, S.1230-1238 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0024923
Schlagwörter	Cooperation; Educational Equity (Finance); Resource Allocation; Child Development; Social Behavior; Social Cognition; Children; Adults; Age Differences; Comparative Analysis; Evaluation Methods; Experiments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Co-operation; Kooperation; Ressourcenallokation; Kindesentwicklung; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Soziale Kognition; Child; Kind; Kinder; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Erprobung
Abstract	The authors investigated how children and adults evaluate the "niceness" of individuals who engage in resource distribution, with a focus on their sensitivity to the proportion of resources given. Across 3 experiments, subjects evaluated the niceness of a child who gave a quantity of pennies to another child. In Study 1 (N = 30), adults showed sensitivity to the proportion given, whereas 5- and 7-year-old children did not. In Study 2 (N = 74), both younger (3- to 5-year-old) and older (6- to 8-year-old) children were sensitive to proportion only when resources were earned by a giver in collaboration with the recipient rather than by the giver alone. Adults, however, were sensitive to proportion in both cases. In Study 3 (N = 44), the authors tested 5- and 6-year-olds and their parents to be sure that socioeconomic and ethnic differences between samples did not drive results and replicated key findings from Studies 1 and 2. Together, these findings indicate that children favor proportional resource distribution in situations that invoke intuitions about equity. The authors suggest that these intuitions may form the basis for adult notions of fairness and generosity. (Contains 1 footnote and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10