The development of children's preferences for equality and equity across 13 individualistic and collectivist cultures
| Autor: | Natalia Gomez-Sicard, Bilge Selcuk, Elizabeth Huppert, Alina Wong, David Huepe, Susan Malcolm-Smith, Kang Lee, Maria Luz Gonzalez-Gadea, Agustín Ibáñez, Yawei Cheng, Xinyue Zhou, Jason M. Cowell, Randa Mahasneh, Natalia Salas, Carlos C. Contreras-Ibáñez, Jean Decety, Bertil Tungodden |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Culture Decision Making Individuality collectivism/individualism fairness resource allocation Empathy Morals Social preferences 050105 experimental psychology Social Facilitation equity Individualism Cognition Social Norms Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences equality Child Distributive justice media_common Motivation cross-cultural development Equity (economics) Individualistic culture 05 social sciences Collectivism morality Morality Child Preschool Female social decision-making Psychology Social psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Developmental Science. 22 |
| ISSN: | 1467-7687 1363-755X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/desc.12729 |
| Popis: | A concern for fairness is a fundamental and universal element of morality. To examine the extent to which cultural norms are integrated into fairness cognitions and influence social preferences regarding equality and equity, a large sample of children (N 2,163) aged 4-11 were tested in 13 diverse countries. Children participated in three versions of a third-party, contextualized distributive justice game between two hypothetical recipients differing in terms of wealth, merit, and empathy. Social decision-making in these games revealed universal age-related shifts from equality-based to equity-based distribution motivations across cultures. However, differences in levels of individualism and collectivism between the 13 countries predicted the age and extent to which children favor equity in each condition. Children from the most individualistic cultures endorsed equitable distributions to a greater degree than children from more collectivist cultures when recipients differed in regards to wealth and merit. However, in an empathy context where recipients differed in injury, children from the most collectivist cultures exhibited greater preferences to distribute resource equitably compared to children from more individualistic cultures. Children from the more individualistic cultures also favored equitable distributions at an earlier age than children from more collectivist cultures overall. These results demonstrate aspects of both cross-cultural similarity and divergence in the development of fairness preferences. This study was supported by a grant from the John Templeton Scopus |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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