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The Evolution and Development of Inequity Aversion

Humans show such strong sensitivity to whether resources are distributed fairly that they sacrifice personal gain to avoid distributional inequity. This inequity aversion plays an important role in guiding human social decision-making and appears to be ubiquitous across human populations. However, we currently do not understand whether or how inequity aversion evolved over the course of human evolution or how it develops in children. / Human Evolutionary Biology

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:harvard.edu/oai:dash.harvard.edu:1/11156679
Date08 June 2015
CreatorsMcAuliffe, Katherine Jane
ContributorsWrangham, Richard W.
PublisherHarvard University
Source SetsHarvard University
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Rightsopen

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