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2026-10-09 Children's resource distribution: When beauty bias meets fairness norms doi:10.57760/sciencedb.012hg en Favorable biases toward attractive individuals significantly influence social interactions from early childhood. However, little is known about how such biases affect children's resource allocation, particularly when they conflict with fairness norms. Across three studies, we examined how 6-year-olds (N = 242) allocate resources between a high- and a low-attractive, same-gender, unfamiliar peer. The findings offer novel insights into the boundary conditions of the “beauty premium” in early childhood and how children balance fairness when navigating competing factors such as merit and appearance. fairness norms; resource allocation; merit; child decision-making; Attractiveness bias Zhen Zhang Peng Jin Jiannong Shi PUBLIC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ dataset Science Data Bank