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Symbolic counting skills promote numerically-sensitive intolerance for selfishness

2025-11-18

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<p>One of the most pervasive human interests is the acquisition of norms surrounding fairness—young children care about equality, enforce it in their behavior, and punish those who don’t behave accordingly. Though the fact that children care about fairness is well-documented, less is understood about the types of fairness norms that children endorse: In this work, across two studies with preschool-aged children (a...

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Literature Corpus work: d204c665-87da-52dd-848e-1f5bbc5a9955
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/mj976_v1

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