“…These findings suggest that children were not interested in punishing the antisocial puppet, though this null result could depend on the type of punishment used in this study. Children seem to exhibit a strong and early tendency to punish through resource reduction (Geraci, 2020a(Geraci, , 2020bHamlin et al, 2011;Kenward & Östh, 2015;McAuliffe et al, 2015;Mendes et al, 2018;Meristo & Surian, 2013;Riedl et al, 2015) rather than through corporal third-party punishments (Meristo & Surian, 2014;Marshall et al, 2019). A potential objection to these findings may be concerned the effect of context that influences each individual's behavior and development throughout life (Berscheid, 1999;Reis et al, 2000), affecting the children and adults' factors that motivate prosocial actions (Eisenberg et al, 2016;Maner & Gailliot, 2007), and evaluations (Geraci, 2020a;Marshall, Wynn et al, 2020).…”