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Schaefer, M., Haun, D. B., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Fair is not fair everywhere. Psychological Science, 26(8), 1252-1260. doi:10.1177/0956797615586188.

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Schaefer, Marie1, Author           
Haun, Daniel B.2, Author           
Tomasello, Michael1, Author           
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1Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society, ou_1497671              
2Comparative Cognitive Anthropology, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_55209              

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 Abstract: Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise on the basis of work contribution or relative productivity seems natural to the modern Western mind. But such notions of merit-based distributive justice may be culturally constructed norms that vary with the social and economic structure of a group. In the present research, we showed that children from three different cultures have very different ideas about distributive justice. Whereas children from a modern Western society distributed the spoils of a joint enterprise precisely in proportion to productivity, children from a gerontocratic pastoralist society in Africa did not take merit into account at all. Children from a partially hunter-gatherer, egalitarian African culture distributed the spoils more equally than did the other two cultures, with merit playing only a limited role. This pattern of results suggests that some basic notions of distributive justice are not universal intuitions of the human species but rather culturally constructed behavioral norms.

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 Dates: 2015
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1177/0956797615586188
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 26 (8) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 1252 - 1260 Identifier: ISSN: 0956-7976
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/974392592005