Do 5- and 6-Year-Old Children Attempt to Appear Fair to Others?

  • Hajimu Hayashi
    Division of Developmental Psychology, Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

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公開日
2020-03-23
資源種別
journal article
DOI
  • 10.1080/00221325.2020.1738321
公開者
Informa UK Limited

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Children come to prefer fair distributions at the age of 5 to 6 years. But do they actually want to be fair, or do they want to appear fair to others? In three conditions, an experimenter initially distributed chocolates to 5-/6-year-old participants and partners they were paired with. Participants always possessed, through some means, two chocolates when the experimenter returned after a brief absence, and they had to decide whether to take an extra one for themselves. To measure the extent to which children were concerned with actually being fair versus appearing fair, two conditions were created in which children were led to believe that the experimenter did not know that the distributions had become equal. In the windfall condition, a confederate gave one additional chocolate to the participant, and in the partner condition, the partner transferred one chocolate to the participant. Compared to the control condition, participants who passed the false belief task in both of these conditions tried to appear fair in their distribution. Thus 5-/6-year-old children seem to prefer appearing fair to others regardless of the situation.

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