Explicit Norms Promotes Costly Fairness in Children

Gonzalez, Gorana

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Explicit Norms Promotes Costly Fairness in Children

dc.contributor.advisor	Tara Mandalaywala
dc.contributor.advisor	Katherine McAuliffe
dc.contributor.advisor	Allecia Reid
dc.contributor.advisor	Evelyn Mercado
dc.contributor.author	Gonzalez, Gorana
dc.contributor.department	University of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.department	Psychology
dc.date	2024-03-28T19:58:01.000
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-26T18:10:12Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-26T18:10:12Z
dc.date.issued	2022-05-13
dc.date.submitted	May
dc.date.submitted	2022
dc.description.abstract	Children have an early-emerging expectation that resources should be divided fairly amongst agents, yet their behavior does not begin to align with these expectations until later in development. This dissociation between knowledge and behavior raises important questions about the mechanisms that encourage children to behave how they know they should behave. Here I tested whether explicitly invoking fairness norms encourages costly fair decisions in 4- to 9-year-old-children. I examine children’s responses to unequal resource allocations in the Inequity Game by varying the direction of inequity (advantageous versus disadvantageous inequity) and normative information (to be fair or to act autonomously). The results show children are more likely to reject advantageous allocation in the Fairness norm condition than in the Autonomous norm condition, but I did not see this difference when children are presented with disadvantageous allocations. This study showcases children’s costly fairness norm enforcement as a flexible process, one that can be brought in and out of alignment with their knowledge of fairness by shining a spotlight on how one ought to behave.
dc.description.degree	Master of Science (M.S.)
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7275/28419951
dc.identifier.orcid	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5903-5932
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/32861
dc.relation.url	https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2233&context=masters_theses_2&unstamped=1
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source.status	published
dc.subject	norms
dc.subject	costly fairness
dc.subject	knowledge behavior gap
dc.subject	inequity aversion
dc.subject	Inequity Game
dc.subject	Cognitive Science
dc.subject	Developmental Psychology
dc.title	Explicit Norms Promotes Costly Fairness in Children
dc.type	openaccess
dc.type	article
dc.type	thesis
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digcom.identifier.submissionpath	masters_theses_2/1187
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