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August 31, 2008

Researchers studying sharing behaviors in children have concluded that a sense of fairness and equality may be somewhat hardwired in people. While experts have long debated the roles of nature and nurture in the development of generosity and selfishness, the results of this new study seem to indicate that it is a combination of the two. When children were presented with small sweets and jelly beans and given two options for dividing them with another child, seven- and …

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