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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| description | 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 performed unequal distributions by giving everything to one recipient. In the test phase, a third agent hit or took resources away from either the fair or the unfair donor. We found that infants looked longer when the antisocial actions were directed towards the unfair rather than the fair donor. These findings support the view that infants are able to evaluate agents based on their distributive actions and suggest that the foundations of human socio-moral competence are acquired independently of parental feedback and linguistic experience. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-054a85b0f81b44588cfe786f507bf05f2022-12-22T02:54:16ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032014-01-01910e11055310.1371/journal.pone.0110553Infants distinguish antisocial actions directed towards fair and unfair agents.Marek MeristoLuca SurianThree 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 performed unequal distributions by giving everything to one recipient. In the test phase, a third agent hit or took resources away from either the fair or the unfair donor. We found that infants looked longer when the antisocial actions were directed towards the unfair rather than the fair donor. These findings support the view that infants are able to evaluate agents based on their distributive actions and suggest that the foundations of human socio-moral competence are acquired independently of parental feedback and linguistic experience.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4199735?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Marek Meristo Luca Surian Infants distinguish antisocial actions directed towards fair and unfair agents. PLoS ONE |
| title | Infants distinguish antisocial actions directed towards fair and unfair agents. |
| title_full | Infants distinguish antisocial actions directed towards fair and unfair agents. |
| title_fullStr | Infants distinguish antisocial actions directed towards fair and unfair agents. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Infants distinguish antisocial actions directed towards fair and unfair agents. |
| title_short | Infants distinguish antisocial actions directed towards fair and unfair agents. |
| title_sort | infants distinguish antisocial actions directed towards fair and unfair agents |
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