Associate Professor So Hayashi of the Graduate School of Human Development and Environmental Studies, Kobe University, investigated the preference for equal distribution among infants and adults, and found that they prefer to distribute the same amount rather than receiving the same amount. It turned out to be in.
The survey targeted 5 infants aged 6 to 24 years old and 34 college students, and changed the method of distributing marbles between the participants and the two dolls in advance, or if they received the same amount, the participants' share. Implemented while changing conditions such as reducing the number.I was asked to choose between getting the same amount and dividing the amount that I had the same.
According to it, more than 50% of the respondents chose a distribution method that would have the same amount in all divisions.Associate Professor Hayashi believes that it has become clear that many humans prefer a method of having the same amount when it comes to equal distribution.
Previous studies have shown that people tend to choose equal distribution from an early age, but does equal distribution mean distributing the same amount, or distribute so that they have the same amount? It wasn't clear until now what that meant.
Distribution of supplies rarely begins with everyone having nothing, and is often done with some people having some supplies.Associate Professor Hayashi says that when the government and the community distribute supplies, not everyone may have the same amount, so it is necessary for the distributor to prepare a reasonably convincing explanation.
Paper information:[European Journal of Developmental Psychology] Preference for distribution by equal outcome in 5-and 6-year-old children
