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ERIC Number: EJ1436717
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Jul
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1522-7227
EISSN: EISSN-1522-7219
Verification Report: Egalitarianism in Young Children
Georgia Clift; Jennifer Beaudry; Sumie Leung; Jordy Kaufman
Infant and Child Development, v33 n4 e2505 2024
The present study sought to evaluate the reproducibility of prominent findings stated by Fehr et al. in their developmental resource allocation experiment "Egalitarianism in Young Children", published in 2008. The experiment involved children making decisions about distributing sweets between themselves and either an in-group or an out-group recipient. Fehr et al. found that (1) inequity aversion develops with age; (2) 3- to 4-year-old children are inclined toward self-advantageous allocations, whereas 7- to 8-year-olds distribute sweets more evenly in divisions, and (3) the influence of group status increases as children age. The original article stated that 229 Swiss school students aged 3 to 8 years (102 boys, 127 girls) participated in the study. However, no further demographics were reported. In our attempts to reproduce Fehr et al.'s original analyses and reanalyse the raw dataset, we found that one of the key variables was miscoded. After rectifying the miscoded variable, the reproduction results revealed only one ambiguously irreproducible result regarding a group status main effect in the sharing mini-game--with three other tests exhibiting either strong reproducibility or ambiguous reproducibility. Reanalysis results indicated that Fehr et al.'s conclusions are robust when tested with alternative analytical tests.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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