How Do Children And Adults Evaluate Fairness Norms?

Speaker

Dr. Meltem Yucel

Location

Psychology East 3834

Info

Children are sensitive to (un)fairness. But do children respond to unfairness the same way they respond to other moral violations? Through five studies with over 280 children and 540 adults in the U.S., we find that children may not equate norms of fairness in resource distribution with harm-based moral norms, even into middle childhood and adulthood, pointing to the need for a more nuanced understanding of children’s developing perceptions of social norms.

Host

SOC Seminar

Research Area

Social Psychology

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