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Children

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Development
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Social Decision-Making

Background:

  • Intuitive and reflective cognitive systems influence cooperative decision-making, with adult research showing context-sensitive effects.
  • Children may exhibit intuitive cooperation, but empirical evidence is limited and findings are inconsistent.
  • Understanding children's fairness behavior requires investigating the interplay of intuitive and reflective processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine how intuitive and reflective decision processes, manipulated via decision time, affect fairness behavior in children.
  • To explore the developmental trajectory of inequity aversion in children under different time constraints.
  • To determine the role of intuitive decision-making in the emergence of fairness concerns during middle childhood.
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