Stephanie Sloane , Renée Baillargeon and David Premack Do Infants Have a Sense of Fairness ?

Running Head: Fairness in Infants? Do Infants Have a Sense of Fairness?

Two experiments examined infants’ expectations about how an experimenter should distribute resources and rewards to others. In Experiment 1, 19-month-olds expected an experimenter to divide two items equally, as opposed to unequally, between two individuals. Infants held no particular expectation when the individuals were replaced with inanimate objects, or when the experimenter simply removed ...

and David Premack Do Infants Have a Sense of Fairness ?

Two experiments examined infants’ expectations about how an experimenter should distribute resources and rewards to other individuals. In Experiment 1, 19-month-olds expected an experimenter to divide two items equally, as opposed to unequally, between two individuals. The infants held no particular expectation when the individuals were replaced with inanimate objects, or when the experimenter ...

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Renée Baillargeon Do Infants Really Expect Agents to Act Efficiently ? A Critical Test of the Rationality Principle

Recent experiments have suggested that infants’ expectations about the actions of agents are guided by a principle of rationality: In particular, infants expect agents to pursue their goals efficiently, expending as little effort as possible. However, these experiments have all presented infants with infrequent or odd actions, which leaves the results open to alternative interpretations and mak...

Innate Ideas Revisited

The notion of innate ideas has long been the subject of intense debate in the fields of philosophy and cognitive science. Over the past few decades, methodological advances have made it possible for developmental researchers to begin to examine what innate ideas—what innate concepts and principles—might contribute to infants’ knowledge acquisition in various core domains. This article focuses o...