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  • Cognitive Development
  • Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Understanding fairness and resource distribution is crucial for social cognition.
  • Inhibitory control plays a key role in decision-making, particularly when faced with conflicting information.
  • Developmental changes in inhibitory control impact social reasoning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate developmental differences in how children and adults accept or reject resource distributions.
  • To dissociate distinct inhibitory processes involved in reasoning about equitable and inequitable outcomes.
  • To evaluate the utility of reach tracking as an online measure of inhibitory control.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a reach-tracking method to record 3D finger movements during resource distribution tasks.
  • Dissociated two inhibitory processes: conflict detection (pausing responses) and conflict resolution (resolving response alternatives).
  • Compared inhibitory processes in 5- to 8-year-olds (N=51) and adults (N=18) across various resource distributions.

Main Results:

  • Reasoning about disadvantageous inequities relied more on conflict detection, a process stable across development.
  • Reasoning about advantageous inequities engaged conflict resolution more, showing developmental progression.
  • Reach tracking effectively measured online inhibitory control during social decision-making.

Conclusions:

  • Inhibitory control mechanisms underlying fairness judgments differ between children and adults.
  • Conflict detection is a foundational inhibitory process for social reasoning, present early in development.
  • Reach tracking provides a valuable tool for studying the dynamics of inhibitory control in cognitive and developmental research.