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Fairness is intuitive

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Author

  • Alexander W. Cappelen
  • Ulrik H. Nielsen
  • Bertil Tungodden
  • Jean-Robert Tyran
  • Erik Wengström

Summary, in English

In this paper we provide new evidence showing that fair behavior is intuitive to most people. We find a strong association between a short response time and fair behavior in the dictator game. This association is robust to controls that take account of the fact that response time might be affected by the decision-maker’s cognitive ability and swiftness. The experiment was conducted with a large and heterogeneous sample recruited from the general population in Denmark. We find a striking similarity in the association between response time and fair behavior across groups in the society, which suggests that the predisposition to act fairly is a general human trait.

Publishing year

2016-12

Language

English

Pages

727-740

Publication/Series

Experimental Economics

Volume

19

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Economics and Business

Keywords

  • Response time
  • Dictator game
  • Experiment
  • Fairness
  • C90
  • D03
  • D60

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1573-6938