“…The decision to test 4-and 5-year-olds was guided by relevant prior research in which children of similar ages were successfully tested using a similar procedure and which was also concerned with children's understanding of relatively complex cooperation and group norms (Misch, Over, & Carpenter, 2014;Vaish, Carpenter, & Tomasello, 2011). In those studies, 5-year-olds evaluated positively, preferred, and distributed more resources to (a) a moral transgressor who displayed remorse more than one who displayed no remorse , and (b) a loyal group member more than a disloyal one (Misch et al, 2014), whereas 4-yearolds did not.…”