Infants distinguish antisocial actions directed towards fair and unfair agents.

Three experiments provide evidence of an incipient sense of fairness in preverbal infants. Ten-month-old infants were shown cartoon videos with two agents, the 'donors', who distributed resources to two identical recipients. One donor always distributed the goods equally, while the other p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marek Meristo, Luca Surian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4199735?pdf=render