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Electronic copies of these journal articles are provided as a professional courtesy for personal use only. These articles are copyrighted by the journals in which they appear. Commercial use or mass reproduction of these articles is prohibited.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Schroeder, K. B., Darling, L. N., & Blake, P. R. (2025). Children adjust behavior in novel social environment to reflect local prosocial norms inferred from brief exposure.\u00a0Plos one,\u00a020(7), e0325984.<\/p>\n

Harvey, T. & Blake, P.R. (2022). Developmental risk sensitivity theory: The effects of SES on <\/span>children\u2019s risky gain and loss decisions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.\u00a0 289(1983), <\/span>20220712.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peretz-Lange, R.**, Harvey, T.*, & Blake, P.R. (2022). From \u201chaves\u201d to \u201chave nots\u201d: <\/span>Developmental declines in subjective social status reflect children\u2019s growing<\/span>consideration of what they do not have. Cognition, 223, 105027.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peretz-Lange, R.**, Harvey, T.* & Blake, P.R. (2022). Socioeconomic status predicts children\u2019s <\/span>moral judgments of novel resource distributions. Developmental Science, e13230.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gerdemann, S.*, McAuliffe, K., Blake, P.R., Haun, D.B.M., & Hepach, R. (2022). The <\/span>ontogeny of children\u2019s social emotions in response to (un)fairness. Royal Society Open <\/span>Science, 9 (8), 191456.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stowe, L.+, Peretz-Lange, R.** & Blake, P.R. (2022). Children consider procedures, outcomes <\/span>and emotions when judging the fairness of inequality. Frontiers, 13, 815901.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fenley, A. R.*, Langer, D. A., Blake, P. R., & Pincus, D. B. (2021). The Relation between Risk <\/span>Perception and Anxiety in Youth: an Investigation Using a Novel Developmentally Tailored Measure. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 1-14.<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith-Flores, A. S.+, Applin, J. B.*, Blake, P. R., & Kibbe, M. M. (2021). Children\u2019s <\/span>understanding of economic demand: A dissociation between inference and choice. Cognition, 214, 104747.<\/span><\/p>\n

Davoodi, T.*, Nelson, L.J., & Blake, P.R. (2020). Children\u2019s conceptions of ownership for <\/span>self and other: Categorical ownership versus strength of claim. Child Development, 91, <\/span>163-178.<\/span><\/p>\n

Davoodi, T.*, Soley, G., Harris, P.L., & Blake, P.R. (2020). Essentialization of social <\/span>categories in two cultures. Child Development, 91, 289-306.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rottman, J., Zizik, V., Minard, K., Young, L., Blake, P. R., & Kelemen, D. (2020). The moral <\/span>or the story? Changing children\u2019s distributive justice preferences through social communication. Cognition, 205, 104441.<\/span><\/p>\n

McAuliffe, K., Warneken, F., & Blake, P.R. (2019). Children\u2019s sense of fairness: Respect <\/span>isn\u2019t everything. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(9), 715.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chernyak, N.**, Leimgruber, K.L., Hu, J.V.+, Dunham, Y., & Blake, P.R. (2019). <\/span>Paying back people who harmed us but not people who helped us: Direct negative <\/span>reciprocity precedes direct positive reciprocity in early development. Psychological <\/span>Science. 30(9), 1273-1286.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ronfard, S.*, Nelson, L.J., Dunham, Y., & Blake, P.R. (2019). Young children recognize the <\/span>value of information and reward informants according to their testimony. Journal of <\/span>Experimental Child Psychology, 177, 100-118.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kajanus, A.E.**, McAuliffe, K., Warneken, F., & Blake, P.R. (2019). A comparison of <\/span>inequity aversion in two Chinese schools. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, <\/span>177, 282-296.<\/span><\/p>\n

Blake, P.R. (2018). Giving what one should: Explanations for the knowledge-behavior gap for <\/span>altruistic giving. Current Opinion in Psychology, 20, 1-5. <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.copsyc.2017.07.041<\/span><\/p>\n

Harvey, T.*, Davoodi, T.* & Blake, P.R. (2018). Young children will lie to prevent a moral <\/span>transgression. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 165, 51-65. <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jecp.2017.06.004<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ronfard, S., Nelson, L., Dunham, L., Blake, P. R. (2018). How children use accuracy information to infer informant intentions and to make reward decisions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 177 (2019) 100\u2013118. <\/em>PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Schroeder, K. B., Asherson, P., Blake, P. R., Fenstermacher, S. K., & Saudino, K. J. (2016). Variant at serotonin transporter gene predicts increased imitation in toddlers: relevance to the human capacity for cumulative culture. <\/span>Biology letters<\/i>, <\/span>12<\/i>(4), 20160106.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Blake, P.R., Corbit, J., Callaghan, T.C. & Warneken, D. (2016) Give as I give: Adult influence on children’s giving in two cultures. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Blake, P.R., McAuliffe, K., Corbit, J., Callaghan, T.C., Barry, O., Bowie, A., Kleutsch, L., Kramer, K.L., Ross, E., Vongsachang, H., Wrangham, R., & Warneken, F., (2015) The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies.\u00a0Nature\u00a0<\/em>PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Blake, P. R., Rand, D. G., Tingley, D., & Warneken, F. (2015). The shadow of the future promotes cooperation in a repeated prisoner\u2019s dilemma for children.<\/span>Scientific reports<\/i>, <\/span>5<\/i>.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Blake, P. R., Piovesan, M., Montinari, N., Warneken, F., & Gino, F. (2015). Prosocial norms in the classroom: The role of self-regulation in following norms of giving. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. <\/em>PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

McAuliffe, K.,\u00a0Blake, P. R., & Warneken, F. (2014). Children reject inequity out of spite.\u00a0Biology Letters,<\/em> 10: 20140743.\u00a0http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsbl.2014.0743\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Blake, P. R., McAuliffe, K.,\u00a0& Warneken, F. (2014). The developmental origins of fairness: the knowledge-behavior gap.\u00a0Trends in Cognitive Sciences.<\/em>\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

McAuliffe, K., Blake, P. R., Kim, G., Wrangham, R. W. & Warneken, F. (2013). Social Influences on Inequity Aversion in Children. PLoS ONE 8<\/em>(12): e80966. doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0080966. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Smith, C. E., Blake, P. R. & Harris, P. L. (2013). I Should but I Won\u2019t: Why Young Children Endorse Norms of Fair Sharing but Do Not Follow them. PLoS ONE 8<\/em>(3): e59510.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Blake, P. R, Ganea, P. A. & Harris, P. L. Possession is not always the law: With age, preschoolers increasingly use verbal information to identify who owns what. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology <\/em>(2012), http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jecp.2012.06.008<\/a>.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Blake, P. R. & McAuliffe, K. (2011). \u201c I had so much it didn\u2019t seem fair\u201d: Eight- year-olds reject two forms of inequity. Cognition<\/em>, doi:10.1016\/j.cognition.2011.04.006.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Blake, P. R. & Harris, P. L. (2011). Early representations of ownership. In H.S. Ross, & O. Friedman (Eds.), The Developmental Origins of Ownership of Property<\/em>.\u00a0New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.<\/em> 39\u201351. doi: 10.1002\/cd.295.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Blake, P. R. & Rand, D. G. (2010). Currency value moderates equity preference among young children. Evolution and Human Behavior<\/em>, 31, 210\u2013218.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Hauser, M. D., McAuliffe, K. & Blake, P. R. (2009). Evolving the ingredients for reciprocity and spite. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B<\/em>, 364, 3255\u20133266.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Blake, P. R. & Harris, P. L. (2009). Children\u2019s understanding of ownership transfers. Cognitive Development, 24<\/em>, 133\u2013145.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Blake, P. R. & Gardner, H. (2007). A first course in Mind, Brain and Education. Mind, Brain and Education<\/em>, Vol. 1(2), 61\u201365.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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