Inequity Aversion in a low SES Argentine Sample

MARÍA PAULINA GUERRA; BELÉN MESURADO; FLORENCIA DE SANCTIS

Baltimore

Congreso; 2019 Biennial Meeting; 2019

Society for Research in Child Development

Our preferences for fair distributions seem to be an extended characteristic of human beings. When people get unequal outcomes, stress levels rise in front of injustice (Austin & Walter 1974) and inequity aversion may emerge. Inequity aversion is the resistance people make to unequal distributions in order to obtain equity (Fehr & Schmidt 1999). When facing disadvantageous unequal distributions the person has two sources of negative effects: the unfairness itself and the privation of a better reward; on the other hand when people face to advantageous unequal distributions a conflict emerges inside the person because they get the positive effect of getting a good outcome, and the negative effect of being unfairly advantageous (Van den Bos 1998). It seems easier for people to react with aversion when the situation is disadvantageous than when it is advantageous.These results support previews findings that postulate that distinct mechanism govern DI and AI behaviors (Blake & McAuliffe 2011). Nevertheless this findings show specific characteristic of this sample that do not match with WEIRD cultures patterns, DI seems to be present since 6 years old but shows a decreasing tendency still not significant. On the other hand AI shows and increasing tendency trough age but not significant. In accordance with other finding these results manifest the importance of culture in the socialization of justice behaviors (Bleke & 2015). It has to be into account that these results represent a low SES sample, and further research need to be done in orther to clarify an argentine pattern of jstice behavior.