Chana Berelejis

Abstract How do relative status and gender shape children’s resource taking? In two preregistered studies, 4–8-year-olds completed a competitive ‘Where’s Waldo?’ task and then decided how many tokens to take from a new peer. In Study 1 (N = 195; 49% girls), children competed against a pre-recorded peer and were randomly assigned to win or lose. Next, they chose one of two unfamiliar peers (a prior “winner” or “loser”) and selected how many tokens to take from that chosen peer.