Stavans, MaayanDiesendruck, Gil2023-06-162023-06-1620210009-3920, 1467-862410.1111/cdev.13420http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/13988Do children construe leaders as individuals whose position of power entails primarily more responsibility or more entitlement, compared with nonleaders? To address this question, 5-year-old children (n = 128) heard a story involving a hierarchical dyad (a leader and a nonleader) and an egalitarian dyad (two nonleaders), and then assessed protagonists’ relative contributions to a collaborative endeavor (Experiments 1 and 2) or relative withdrawals from a common resource pool earned jointly (Experiment 3). Children expected a leader to contribute more toward a joint goal than its nonleader partner, and to withdraw an equal share (not more) from a common pool. Children thus gave evidence that they construed leaders as more responsible, rather than more entitled, relative to nonleaders.engCC BY 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Journal articlehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.13420