RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in how children acquire and enforce social norms of their particular cultural group, and how this process is embedded in the human inclination towards prosociality and cooperation. My dissertation focuses on unequal norm enforcement as a phenomenon where social norms are arbitrarily enforced for some transgressors but not others. Specifically, I am investigating how children may come to engage in unequal norm enforcement out of prosocial and cooperative motivations to reciprocate favours, associate with their social group, and collaborate with others. Apart from that, I also maintain an interest in children’s language acquisition.