Age-Related Changes in Children's Resource Giving: How Social Categories and Fairness Considerations Influence Distribution Decisions
- DOI
- 10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.13How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- accent, fairness, in-group bias, race, resource distribution
- Abstract
This study investigated children‟s resource distribution decisions based upon photographs of unfamiliar children that differed in race and accent. Photographs were presented to children with accompanying audio. Seventy-six White 5- to 12-year-old children were given three coins to distribute to pairs of recipients, with an option to be fair by discarding a resource. However, results revealed fairness was not a prominent strategy for children. Children below 7-years-old gave selectively more coins to their race and accent in-group whilst children aged 7- to 8-years old gave selectively more coins to their accent in-group only when it was paired with the outgroup race. Children over the age of 9 consistently gave more coins to their accent in-group despite the racial category. It was concluded that for children 9 years of age and older, accent is a stronger social marker than race in guiding their resource distribution decisions.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Jessica Spence AU - Kana Imuta PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - Age-Related Changes in Children's Resource Giving: How Social Categories and Fairness Considerations Influence Distribution Decisions BT - Proceedings of the Universitas Indonesia International Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 80 EP - 88 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.13 DO - 10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.13 ID - Spence2018/07 ER -