% pubman genre = article @article{item_3166369, title = {{Preschoolers consider (absent) others when choosing a distribution procedure}}, author = {Grocke, Patricia and Rossano, Federico and Tomasello, Michael}, language = {eng}, issn = {1932-6203}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0221186}, publisher = {Public Library of Science}, address = {San Francisco, CA}, year = {2019}, abstract = {{This study investigated how the presence of others and anticipated distributions for self influence children{\textquoteright}s fairness-related decisions in two different socio-moral contexts. In the first part, three- and five-year-old children (N {\textequals} 120) decided between a fair and an unfair wheel of fortune to allocate resources (procedural justice). In the second part, they directly chose between two distributions of resources (distributive justice). While making a decision, each child was either observed by the affected group members (public), alone (private), or no others were introduced (non-social control). Children choose the fair option more often when others were affected (independently of their presence) only in the procedural justice task. These results suggest that using a fair procedure to distribute resources allows young preschoolers to overcome selfish tendencies.}}, journal = {{PLoS One}}, volume = {14}, number = {8}, eid = {e0221186}, }