The developmental foundations of human fairness

K McAuliffe, PR Blake, N Steinbeis… - Nature Human …, 2017 - nature.com
New behavioural and neuroscientific evidence on the development of fairness behaviours
demonstrates that the signatures of human fairness can be traced into childhood. Children …

Children's sense of fairness as equal respect

JM Engelmann, M Tomasello - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2019 - cell.com
One influential view holds that children's sense of fairness emerges at age 8 and is rooted in
the development of an aversion to unequal resource distributions. Here, we suggest two …

The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies

PR Blake, K McAuliffe, J Corbit, TC Callaghan, O Barry… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
A sense of fairness plays a critical role in supporting human cooperation,,. Adult norms of fair
resource sharing vary widely across societies, suggesting that culture shapes the acquisition …

Restorative justice in children

K Riedl, K Jensen, J Call, M Tomasello - Current biology, 2015 - cell.com
An important, and perhaps uniquely human, mechanism for maintaining cooperation against
free riders is third-party punishment [1, 2]. Our closest living relatives, chimpanzees, will not …

Support for redistribution is shaped by compassion, envy, and self-interest, but not a taste for fairness

D Sznycer, MF Lopez Seal, A Sell, J Lim… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
Why do people support economic redistribution? Hypotheses include inequity aversion, a
moral sense that inequality is intrinsically unfair, and cultural explanations such as exposure …

Children's collaboration induces fairness rather than generosity

J Corbit, K McAuliffe, TC Callaghan, PR Blake… - Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Children across diverse societies reject resource allocations that place them at a
disadvantage (disadvantageous inequity aversion; DI). In certain societies, older children …

Emotion-based learning systems and the development of morality

RJR Blair - Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper it is proposed that important components of moral development and moral
judgment rely on two forms of emotional learning: stimulus-reinforcement and response …

Children weigh equity and efficiency in making allocation decisions: Evidence from the US, Israel, and China

S Choshen-Hillel, Z Lin, A Shaw - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2020 - Elsevier
When children divide resources between others, their decisions generally follow principles
of equity (ie, equal pay for equal work) and efficiency (ie, maximizing available resources) …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative approach to affect and cooperation

JJM Massen, F Behrens, JS Martin, M Stocker… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
A central premise of the science of comparative affect is that we can best learn about the
causes and consequences of affect by comparing affective phenomena across a variety of …

Anthropomorphism in comparative affective science: Advocating a mindful approach

LA Williams, SF Brosnan, Z Clay - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human-like capacities and traits to non-human
entities. Anthropomorphism is ubiquitous in everyday life and in scientific domains …