Behavioral research/Psychology
Schäfer, M., Haun, DBM, & Tomasello, M. (2015). Fair Is Not Fair Everywhere. Psychological Science, 26(8), 1252–1260. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615586188
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.
