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We need to understand economic inequality from children’s perspectives

Economic inequality is on the rise, and children will bear its burden. Yet children’s perspectives are rarely considered. We urgently need interdisciplinary research to better understand how inequality gets into children’s heads and under their skins, and to inform policies that center children’s lived experiences.

Eddie Brummelman
Richard E. Ahl
Katherine McAuliffe
Comments & OpinionOpen Access13 Feb 2026
Communications Psychology

Volume: 4, P: 1-4
The developmental foundations of human fairness

McAuliffe et al. synthesize recent behavioural and neuroscientific evidence on the development of fairness behaviours in children, which shows that the signatures of human fairness can be traced in childhood.

Katherine McAuliffe
Peter R. Blake
Felix Warneken
Reviews08 Feb 2017
Nature Human Behaviour

Volume: 1, P: 1-9
Across six societies children engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair sharing

Third-party punishment of unfair sharing is a hallmark of a normative concern for fairness in adults. Here, children in Canada, India, Peru, Uganda, USA, and Vanuatu show this same normative concern by punishing peers—sometimes even at personal cost—who have shared unfairly.

Katherine McAuliffe
Samantha Bangayan
Felix Warneken
ResearchOpen Access17 Mar 2025
Communications Psychology

Volume: 3, P: 1-14
Publisher Correction: Immune landscape in invasive ductal and lobular breast cancer reveals a divergent macrophage-driven microenvironment

Sayali Onkar
Jian Cui
Dario A. A. Vignali
Amendments and Corrections03 Apr 2023
Nature Cancer

Volume: 4, P: 582
Immune landscape in invasive ductal and lobular breast cancer reveals a divergent macrophage-driven microenvironment

Using single-cell and high-dimensional profiling of the immune microenvironment, Vignali and colleagues uncover distinct cell subsets and interactions in human invasive ductal and lobular breast carcinoma, with potential prognostic and therapeutic relevance.

Sayali Onkar
Jian Cui
Dario A. A. Vignali
Research16 Mar 2023
Nature Cancer

Volume: 4, P: 516-534
Children as assessors and agents of third-party punishment

An assumption of modern institutional justice systems is that transgressors should be punished. In this Review, Marshall and McAuliffe synthesize research on whether children expect bystanders to punish others, favour those who do so, and even pursue certain forms of intervention, such as punishment, in response to wrongdoing.

Julia Marshall
Katherine McAuliffe
Reviews04 Apr 2022
Nature Reviews Psychology

Volume: 1, P: 334-344
Cleaner fish are sensitive to what their partners can and cannot see

McAuliffe et al. demonstrate that in the context of cooperative cleaning, wild-caught female cleaner wrasse are more likely to cheat when their partners are out of view. This provides evidence that cleaner wrasse possess a building block of theory of mind: sensitivity to what others can and cannot see.

Katherine McAuliffe
Lindsey A. Drayton
Redouan Bshary
ResearchOpen Access30 Sept 2021
Communications Biology

Volume: 4, P: 1-7
Sampling decisions in developmental psychology

A priori sampling decisions often constrain which age groups are tested in particular developmental studies, which can profoundly shape inferences about developmental change. Thus, it is important to pull back the curtain on what drives these decisions.

Katherine McAuliffe
Comments & Opinion04 Apr 2024
Nature Reviews Psychology

Volume: 3, P: 297-298
The impact of group membership on punishment versus partner rejection

Trystan Loustau
Jacob Glassman
Katherine McAuliffe
ResearchOpen Access27 Sept 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-13
Author Correction: Children avoid inefficient but fair partners in a cooperative game

Laurent Prétôt
Gorana Gonzalez
Katherine McAuliffe
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access01 Oct 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1
Children avoid inefficient but fair partners in a cooperative game

Laurent Prétôt
Gorana Gonzalez
Katherine McAuliffe
ResearchOpen Access29 Jun 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-14
DMAb inoculation of synthetic cross reactive antibodies protects against lethal influenza A and B infections

Sarah T. C. Elliott
Nicole L. Kallewaard
David B. Weiner
ResearchOpen Access06 Jul 2017
npj Vaccines

Volume: 2, P: 1-9

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