"But the poor needed it more": Children's judgments on procedural justice to allocate resources between two candidates equal in merit, different in need.

The current study investigated children's judgments on procedural justice and its outcomes when the candidates were equal in merit but different in need. A total of 88 children (41 girls and 47 boys) aged 7 to 11 years were individually interviewed (M = 8 years 9 months, SD = 14.065 months).