Even small children expect that in assigning rewards certain rules must be followed. A study was performed on 80 infants aged 17 months to understand if the presence of a dominant figure modifies how they view goods belonging to the community should be shared. The infants were showed a video where a puppet imposed himself nonviolently on another puppet to sit on a special chair that both wanted. The puppets were then showed another set of videos. In the first the two puppets received a reward in equal measure. In the second video the puppet who had imposed himself received a bigger reward and in the third video it received less. The reactions of all infants were documented with high precision instruments. Results revealed that the third video considerably surprised the infants, the first one slightly surprised them and the second one did not surprise them at all. This shows that from a very young age we associate being influential with receiving more rewards. The study gave rise to another two studies. In the first researchers wanted to know if the greater resources the more dominant puppet had a right to were actually his or if they were only under his jurisdiction (in the case of the chair, if it belonged to the puppet sitting on it or did it simply have the right to sit on it whenever it chose). In the second study the question was whether the puppet who got to sit on the chair did so because viewed as brighter or more determined or for some other attribute. Does the dominant figure send out some subliminal message that those around register?