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Is the Ultimatum Game a three-body affair?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2005

Gerd Gigerenzer  and
Thalia Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer*
Affiliation:
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195Berlin, Germanyhttp://ntfm.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/mpib/FMPro
Thalia Gigerenzer*
Affiliation:
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195Berlin, Germanyhttp://ntfm.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/mpib/FMPro
*
gigerenzer@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
gigerenzer@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
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Abstract

The Ultimatum Game is commonly interpreted as a two-person bargaining game. The third person who donates and may withdraw the money is not included in the theoretical equations, but treated like a neutral measurement instrument. Yet in a cross-cultural analysis it seems necessary to consider the possibility that the thoughts of a player – strategic, altruistic, selfish, or concerned about reputation – are influenced by both an anonymous second player and the non-anonymous experimenter.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , December 2005 , pp. 823 - 824
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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