Proceedings of the Universitas Indonesia International Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2017)

Age-Related Changes in Children's Resource Giving: How Social Categories and Fairness Considerations Influence Distribution Decisions

Authors
Jessica Spence, Kana Imuta
Corresponding Author
Jessica Spence
Available Online July 2018.
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.

Copyright
© 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/).

Download article (PDF)

Volume Title
Proceedings of the Universitas Indonesia International Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-541-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.13How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 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  -