“No fair!”: An investigation of children’s development of fairness | Emotion Researcher

Living in communities is not easy; to co-exist successfully we must understand and follow certain norms or risk being shunned by our groups. Such norm understanding begins to emerge remarkably early in life1–3. Norms aimed at preserving the rights and welfare of others belong to the moral domain; norms aimed at preserving the social coordination of groups belong to the conventional domain. At around three years of age, young children start to distinguish moral from conventional norms4,5 and...