Influences of a Luck Game on Offers in Ultimatum and Dictator Games: Is There a Mediation of Emotions?

ABSTRACT: The ultimatum (UG) and dictator (DG) games are two tasks where a sum of money has to be divided between two players: a proposer and a receiver. Following the rational choice theory, proposers should offer the minimum in the UG and nothing in the DG, due to the presence/absence of the receivers' bargaining power. The fact that people generally make non-negligible offers in both games has suggested divergent explicative hypotheses and has generated extensive research to examine exogenous and endogenous factors underlying such decisions. Among the contextual factors affecting the proposers' offers, the sense of entitlement or of ownership has been shown to reduce offers significantly. A frequent way to induce the sense of entitlement/ownership has been to assign the role of proposer to the pl

SUBMITTER: Matarazzo O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7008780 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature