Wealth, power, and status are distributed unevenly across social groups. A surge of recent
research reveals that people being recognizing, representing, and reasoning about group …

The ability to engage in counterfactual thinking (reason about what else could have
happened) is critical to learning, agency, and social evaluation. However, not much is …

Research in political psychology largely ignores early childhood. This is likely due to the
assumption that young children lack the cognitive capacity and social understanding …

Desirable resources are crucial for incentivized tasks of prosocial behavior.
Developmentalists have often used tangible items, such as candy or stickers, as the …

Children's socioeconomic status (SES) is linked to disparate access to resources and affects
social behaviors such as inclusion and resource allocations. Yet it is unclear whether …

Racism and intergroup discrimination are pervasive problems in human societies. Whereas
several studies have shown that children show bias in the context of many kinds of groups …

Decisions about how to divide resources have profound social and practical consequences.
Do explanations regarding the source of existing inequalities influence how children and …

Abstract This study investigated 3‐to 11‐year‐old US children's (N= 348) perceptions of
access to resources, social group preferences, and resource distribution decisions and …

The way in which children consider information may depend on the groups to which they
belong and the social status those groups occupy. In three studies, we examined how …

One persistent and pernicious feature of outstanding social inequality is that even relatively
extreme forms of inequality can be justified with reference to merit-based considerations …