2019
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00116
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Do Infants in the First Year of Life Expect Equal Resource Allocations?

Abstract: Recent research has provided converging evidence, using multiple tasks, of sensitivity to fairness in the second year of life. In contrast, findings in the first year have been mixed, leaving it unclear whether young infants possess an expectation of fairness. The present research examined the possibility that young infants might expect windfall resources to be divided equally between similar recipients, but might demonstrate this expectation only under very simple conditions. In three violation-of-expectation… Show more

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“…Representations and even motives concerning the principles of equality and hierarchy emerge early in infancy, suggesting they form part of the set of innate social-cognitive mechanisms with which all humans are endowed. Preverbal infants appear egalitarian, predicting and preferring that outcomes be distributed equally in the absence of other information [5][6][7][8][9], and approaching equal over unequal distributors [7,8]. If one agent has previously dominated another, however, they expect third parties will distribute most resources to the more dominant agent [10] (see also [11]).…”
Section: Navigating Inequality Is Core To Social Cognitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Representations and even motives concerning the principles of equality and hierarchy emerge early in infancy, suggesting they form part of the set of innate social-cognitive mechanisms with which all humans are endowed. Preverbal infants appear egalitarian, predicting and preferring that outcomes be distributed equally in the absence of other information [5][6][7][8][9], and approaching equal over unequal distributors [7,8]. If one agent has previously dominated another, however, they expect third parties will distribute most resources to the more dominant agent [10] (see also [11]).…”
Section: Navigating Inequality Is Core To Social Cognitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Among the empirical evidence adduced in support of nativism is the finding that 16-month-old infants tend to prefer fair distributers and look longer at bystanders approaching these fair distributers (Geraci & Surian, 2011). In addition, 4-and 9-month-old infants were found to look longer when an experimenter divided rewards unequally compared to equally, but only when two cookies were distributed, not when four cookies were involved (Buyukozer Dawkins et al, 2019). This is consistent with other research also finding that 12-month-olds failed to look longer when four rewards were distributed unequally (Sommerville et al, 2013).…”
Section: Approaches To the Development Of Givingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Findings from recent research suggest that infants are sensitive to various fairness principles during their second year of life (Geraci and Surian, 2011;Schmidt and Sommerville, 2011;Sloane et al, 2012;Sommerville et al, 2013) and possibly even earlier (Meristo et al, 2016;Ziv and Sommerville, 2017;Buyukozer Dawkins et al, 2019). In one study, Sloane et al (2012) designed a new looking time task to examine whether 19-to 21-monthold toddlers react differently to fair and unfair distribution of resources.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%