Preschoolers favor their ingroup when resources are limited

• Main Authors: Lee, Kristy Jia Jin, Esposito, Gianluca, Setoh, Peipei
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Fairness; Ingroup Loyalty; DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89584; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46295
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The present study examined how 2- to 4-year-old preschoolers in Singapore (N = 202) balance fairness and ingroup loyalty in resource distribution. Specifically, we investigated whether children would enact fair distributions as defined by an equality rule, or show partiality toward their ingroup whe...