Children’s and young adults’ evaluations of distributional fairness in relation to other norms.

= 50; 4-8 years) also treat resource inequality as a moral concern. Children judged unequal resource distribution, like harm, as more norm-independent than conventions and provided justifications focused on fairness. In Study 3, a partial reanalysis of data from Yucel et al.'s Study 1 suggested that their failure to detect a significant difference in norm independence judgments of resource inequality and conventional transgressions was likely due to insufficient statistical power. Together these findings suggest that children and adults do perceive distributional fairness as a moral norm as conceptualized within social domain theory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).