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Umiemah Farrukh; Lucy M. Stowe; Nadia Chernyak – Social Development, 2025
Recent work suggests that young children develop strong intuitions about inequitable resource distribution when it arises due to fair and unfair procedures (merit, structural, or random chance). Here, we investigated an understudied form of inequality: one that arises due to a single suboptimal choice (referred to as self-inflicted inequality).…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Equal Education, Ethics, Decision Making
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Gee, Caroline L.; Heyman, Gail D. – Social Development, 2007
Children's evaluations of what people communicate about themselves were examined in three studies with a total of 296 participants (aged four to 12). Participants heard scenarios in which characters' motivations to reveal truthful information were systematically manipulated to examine (1) children's understanding that people do not always reveal…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cues, Preschool Children, Evaluative Thinking