Recent empirical work has provided new insight into the origins of distributive, procedural, and retributive justice. Engelmann and Tomasello [1] offer an overarching framework that attempts to explain these different aspects of fairness as deriving from a single core process – a desire for mutual respect. While we applaud this integrative attempt, we point out two outstanding challenges. First, although collaboration engenders fairness concerns, children still show a self-centered bias in their response to inequality. Second, children are often surprisingly focused on distributional outcomes without much regard to the history of how they came about, calling into question whether equal respect alone can account for children’s emerging fairness concerns.

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孩子的公平感：尊重不是一切

最近的实证工作为分配正义、程序正义和报复正义的起源提供了新的见解。Engelmann 和 Tomasello [1] 提供了一个总体框架，试图将公平的这些不同方面解释为源自一个单一的核心过程——相互尊重的愿望。在我们赞扬这种整合尝试的同时，我们指出了两个突出的挑战。首先，尽管合作会引起公平问题，但儿童在应对不平等时仍然表现出以自我为中心的偏见。其次，孩子们常常出人意料地关注分配结果，而没有过多考虑他们是如何产生的历史，这令人质疑单凭平等尊重是否可以解释孩子们新出现的公平问题。