Date: Friday 31st January
Time: 11:30 am
Place: Conference room, Pavillon Jardin - 29, rue d'Ulm
Title: “The
Origins of Fairness: Experiments with Children and Monkeys”
Abstract: Recent
research has argued that surprisingly advanced fairness judgments can be found
early in childhood development and even in some nonhuman primates. I present
new experiments showing the opposite: situations in which monkeys do not care
about fairness and young children show spiteful preferences against fairness.
Which set of research should you believe? Both, of course! In a review
including both sets of research, I will discuss the similarities and
differences in the fairness of these populations. The interesting question
becomes about which aspects of adult fairness can be found in these other
populations, and how the initial state matures into the adult one.
