Wrangham, Richard W.McAuliffe, Katherine2013-10-082013-10-082013McAuliffe, Katherine Jane. 2013. The Evolution and Development of Inequity Aversion. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10757http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11156679Humans show such strong sensitivity to whether resources are distributed fairly that they sacrifice personal gain to avoid distributional inequity. This inequity aversion plays an important role in guiding human social decision-making and appears to be ubiquitous across human populations. However, we currently do not understand whether or how inequity aversion evolved over the course of human evolution or how it develops in children.en-USEvolution & developmentAnimal behaviorDevelopmental psychologyAnimal CognitionCooperationFairnessInequity AversionThesis or Dissertation2015-06-08