Adults across societies are willing to pay to uphold fairness norms and to punish those who refuse to uphold them. In this presentation, Katherine McAuliffe will discuss work showing that children, too, punish in these contexts.
Fairness is an important part of our cooperative lives. Specifically a set of studies that examines when and under what conditions children across cultures punish others as third parties will be discussed. From these studies, I will focus on four main findings: (1) costly third-party punishment emerges relatively early in development in the USA, appearing around the age of 6; (2) like adults, children show cross-societal variation in third-party punishment; (3) children are motivated more by retributive than restorative concerns and (4) children become less selfish in response to third-party punishment. I’ll end by describing a new line of work on the cross-cultural development of virtue. Together, these studies demonstrate that children show surprising sophistication in their emerging ability to behave fairly and to promote fairness in others.
Zoom meeting: Meeting ID: 948 3453 1169
Passcode: 214345
Katherine McAuliffe is an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College where she directs the Cooperation Lab and co-directs the Boston College Virtue Project. Her past work has focused on how children across societies acquire and enforce norms of cooperation, with a particular focus on children’s emerging understanding of fairness.
| Start date: | |
|---|---|
| End date: | |
| Time: | |
| End time: | |
| Location: | Zoom Meeting |