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      The Development of Children’s Egalitarianism in the Context of Group Membership and Resource Valence

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          Abstract. Children’s motivation for the egalitarian allocation of resources is reflected in their allocation of positive and negative resources between themselves and others. In the present study, 6- ( n = 29) and 8-year-olds ( n = 25) could choose between different allocations of positive and negative resources to themselves and others in a series of games. The other player was either an ingroup member or an outgroup member. Results revealed that, overall and irrespective of resource valence, 8-year-olds were more likely to choose an egalitarian allocation of resources than 6-year-olds. 8-year-olds also shared more positive resources with the outgroup member than 6-year-olds. Children’s egalitarianism is discussed in light of theories of prosocial development.

          Die Entwicklung von Egalitarismus bei Kindern im Kontext von Gruppenzugehörigkeit und Ressourcenvalenz

          Zusammenfassung. Die Motivation von Kindern, Ressourcen egalitär zu verteilen zeigt sich bei der Verteilung von positiven wie auch negativen Ressourcen zwischen sich selbst und anderen. In dieser Studie konnten 6- ( n = 29) und 8-Jährige ( n = 25) zwischen verschiedenen Verteilungen von positiven und negativen Ressourcen zwischen sich selbst und einem anderen Kind in einer Reihe von Spielen entscheiden. Das andere Kind war entweder ein Mitglied der Eigengruppe oder ein Mitglied einer Fremdgruppe. Als Ergebnis zeigte sich, dass 8-Jährige häufiger als 6-Jährige unabhängig von der Valenz der Ressource eine Gleichverteilung wählten. Des Weiteren teilten die 8-Jährigen häufiger als 6-Jährige positive Ressourcen egalitär zwischen sich und dem Kind der Fremdgruppe auf. Dieser Egalitarismus bei Kindern wird vor dem Hintergrund von Theorien zur Entwicklung prosozialen Verhaltens diskutiert.

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            Human social interaction is strongly shaped by other-regarding preferences, that is, a concern for the welfare of others. These preferences are important for a unique aspect of human sociality-large scale cooperation with genetic strangers-but little is known about their developmental roots. Here we show that young children's other-regarding preferences assume a particular form, inequality aversion that develops strongly between the ages of 3 and 8. At age 3-4, the overwhelming majority of children behave selfishly, whereas most children at age 7-8 prefer resource allocations that remove advantageous or disadvantageous inequality. Moreover, inequality aversion is strongly shaped by parochialism, a preference for favouring the members of one's own social group. These results indicate that human egalitarianism and parochialism have deep developmental roots, and the simultaneous emergence of altruistic sharing and parochialism during childhood is intriguing in view of recent evolutionary theories which predict that the same evolutionary process jointly drives both human altruism and parochialism.
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              The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies.

              A sense of fairness plays a critical role in supporting human cooperation. Adult norms of fair resource sharing vary widely across societies, suggesting that culture shapes the acquisition of fairness behaviour during childhood. Here we examine how fairness behaviour develops in children from seven diverse societies, testing children from 4 to 15 years of age (n = 866 pairs) in a standardized resource decision task. We measured two key aspects of fairness decisions: disadvantageous inequity aversion (peer receives more than self) and advantageous inequity aversion (self receives more than a peer). We show that disadvantageous inequity aversion emerged across all populations by middle childhood. By contrast, advantageous inequity aversion was more variable, emerging in three populations and only later in development. We discuss these findings in relation to questions about the universality and cultural specificity of human fairness.

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                Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie
                Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen
                0049-8637
                2190-6262
                July 2022
                : 54
                : 3
                : 93-104
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ]Institute of Psychology, TU Dortmund University, Germany
                [ 2 ]Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
                [ 3 ]Department of Applied Human Sciences, HS Magdeburg-Stendal, Germany
                Author notes
                Prof. Dr. Norbert Zmyj, Institute of Psychology, TU Dortmund University, Emil-Figge-Straße 50, 44227 Dortmund, Germany, E-mail norbert.zmyj@ 123456tu-dortmund.de
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2603-0729
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                zep_54_3_93
                10.1026/0049-8637/a000255
                bdce82fc-5044-450a-b371-be0fff7976f5
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                Distributed as a Hogrefe OpenMind article under the license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0)

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                Funding:Open access publication enabled by TU Dortmund University.
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                Psychology,Family & Child studies,Development studies,Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                Kinder,Egalitarismus,sharing,Eigengruppenpräferenz,Teilen,ingroup bias,Ressourcenvalenz,children,resource valence,egalitarianism

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