Fast to forgive, slow to retaliate: intuitive responses in the ultimatum game depend on the degree of unfairness.

ABSTRACT: Evolutionary accounts have difficulty explaining why people cooperate with anonymous strangers they will never meet. Recently models, focusing on emotional processing, have been proposed as a potential explanation, with attention focusing on a dual systems approach based on system 1 (fast, intuitive, automatic, effortless, and emotional) and system 2 (slow, reflective, effortful, proactive and unemotional). Evidence shows that when cooperation is salient, people are fast (system 1) to cooperate, but with longer delays (system 2) they show greed. This is interpreted within the framework of the social heuristic hypothesis (SHH), whereby people overgeneralize potentially advantageous intuitively learnt and internalization social norms to 'atypical' situations. We extend this to explore intuit

SUBMITTER: Ferguson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4018360 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature