Katherine Jane McAuliffe is a Canadian psychologist who is a professor of psychology at Boston College, studying evolutionary anthropology and how children develop a sense of fairness.
McAuliffe has conducted studies with children at a range of international sites in an effort to characterize cross-cultural similarities and variations.
[4] After completing her MPhil, McAuliffe moved to Harvard University for her doctoral research in what is now the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology.
[9] Unlike typical psychologists, McAuliffe investigates global communities, not just the western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic (WEIRD) population.
[12][13][14] Her work has explored how children react to both advantageous and disadvantageous inequity, largely through economic game experiments.