Data on Preschoolers’ Resource Allocation to Ingroup and Outgroup Recipients with Varying Moral Attributes

Abstract

This article describes data collected from 130 two- to six-year-olds who participated in two experimental studies conducted in Singapore preschools. The data presented herein are related to the research article entitled “Young Children’s Intergroup Resource Allocation in Conventional and Moral Transgressions” [1]. Two datasets with accompanying program code for analyses are provided, corresponding to Experiment 1 (N = 66) and Experiment 2 (N = 64), which feature a conventional transgression and a moral transgression respectively. Each dataset includes information about basic demographics (age, gender, ethnicity), experimental conditions (where recipients’ group membership and moral attributes were manipulated: ingroup transgressor/outgroup non-transgressor, or ingroup non-transgressor/outgroup transgressor), counterbalanced variables such as the left-right positions of recipients, as well as each participant’s resource allocation decisions on four allocation trials (binary outcome on each trial: favor transgressor or non-transgressor). Generalized linear mixed models were performed on the data to examine effects of age, gender, and recipient characteristics on preschoolers’ resource allocation decisions.