%0 Journal Article
%A Grocke, Patricia
%A Rossano, Federico
%A Tomasello, Michael
%+ Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Preschoolers consider (absent) others when choosing a distribution procedure : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-BF59-2
%R 10.1371/journal.pone.0221186
%7 2019-08-29
%D 2019
%8 29.08.2019
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X This study investigated how the presence of others and anticipated distributions for self influence children’s fairness-related decisions in two different socio-moral contexts. In the first part, three- and five-year-old children (N = 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.
%J PLoS One
%V 14
%N 8
%]  e0221186
%I Public Library of Science
%C San Francisco, CA
%@ 1932-6203