Publications by authors named "Tim Wei-Ting Chao"
Social status is related to children's responses to third-person inequalities.
J Exp Child Psychol
January 2025
Article Synopsis
- The study explored how children's experiences with being advantaged or disadvantaged in one type of inequality affect their reactions to other inequalities they are neither a part of.
- Involving 161 children aged 3-8 from diverse backgrounds, the research assigned them to either an advantaged or disadvantaged group based on a gender-based inequality scenario.
- Findings showed that children with advantaged status were less inclined to correct a separate economic inequality involving others, particularly if they viewed the situation from the perspective of the advantaged individual, indicating that their initial experiences shape their understanding of fairness in broader contexts.
Evaluations of others' generosity are critical for selecting quality social partners, yet the factors which systematically affect these evaluations and whether they vary across development are still relatively unclear. Here, we establish that two key dimensions adults and children (aged 4 to 7 years) consider are the cost associated with a giving action and the need of the recipient, through six pre-registered experiments with Canadian and U.S.
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