Young children choose to share prizes after working together

Friday, February 11, 2011 - 11:40 in Psychology & Sociology

Grownups have a good sense of what's fair. Research now shows that this is true for young children, too. In a study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, three-year-old children shared with a peer after they worked together to earn a reward, even in situations where it would be easy for one child to keep all of the spoils for himself...

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