Ownership and value in childhood

ML Pesowski, SE Nancekivell, A Tasimi… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Ownership and value go together, and understanding both is imperative for children to know
how to act in socially appropriate and advantageous ways. This paper reviews how children …

Having less means wanting more: Children hold an intuitive economic theory of diminishing marginal utility

RE Ahl, E Cook, K McAuliffe - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Judgments surrounding resource acquisition and valuation are ubiquitous in daily life. How
do humans decide what something is worth to themselves or someone else? One important …

Children's evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?

M Echelbarger, SA Gelman - Cognitive Development, 2023 - Elsevier
Determining value is key to reasoning about resources. Scarcity has been proposed as an
easily accessible cue children can use to judge value, but prior studies have yielded …

The odds tell children what people favor.

T Doan, E Stonehouse, S Denison… - Developmental …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
In pursuing goals, people seek favorable odds. We investigated whether young children use
this fact to infer goals from people's actions across two experiments on Canadian 3-to 7-year …

Easy or difficult? Children's understanding of how supply and demand affect goal completion

EE Stonehouse, M Huh, O Friedman - Child Development, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Three experiments examined children's understanding of how supply and demand affect the
difficulty of completing goals. Participants were 368 predominantly White Canadians (52 …

Rectifying inequities in resource collection in young children

DM Sobel, J Blankenship, MR Yockel… - Developmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous studies have documented children's understanding of fairness through their
ability to rectify inequities when distributing resources to others. Understanding fairness …

Descriptive Norms Influence Children's Injunctive and Moral Norm Beliefs

P Deutchman, J Marshall, Y Lee… - Available at SSRN …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
When children form opinions about what the moral thing to do is and how they should act,
they often look at what others are doing. That is, their injunctive norm beliefs about what they …

Children hold an intuitive economic theory of diminishing marginal utility

R Ahl, K McAuliffe - 2022 - osf.io
Judgments surrounding resource acquisition and valuation are ubiquitous in daily life. How
do humans decide what something is worth to themselves or someone else? One important …

[PDF][PDF] original submission, before edits from the peer review process

RE Ahl, K McAuliffe - researchgate.net
Judgments surrounding resource acquisition and valuation are ubiquitous in daily life. How
do humans decide what something is worth to themselves or someone else? One important …