Children’s inequity aversion depends on culture A cross-cultural comparison 儿童的不平等厌恶依赖于文化：跨文化比较.pdfVIP

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 132 (2015) 240–246 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Experimental Child Psychology journal homepage: /locate/jecp Brief Report Children’s inequity aversion depends on culture: A cross-cultural comparison Markus Paulus Department of Developmental Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80802 Munich, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Recent work showed the presence of strong forms of inequity aver- Available online 24 January 2015 sion in young children. When presented with an uneven number of items, children would rather tend to throw one item away than to Keywords: distribute them unequally between two anonymous others. The Fairness current study examined whether or not this pattern is a universal Development part of typical development by investigating 6- and 7-year-old Cognitive development Resource allocation Ugandan children. Results revealed that the Ugandan children, in Cross-cultural differences contrast to their U.S. peers, tended to distribute the resources Collectivism unequally rather than to throw the remaining resource away. This points to cross-cultural differences in the development of children’s fairness-related decision making.