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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/02/2013 04:27, spike wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a long article, but the interesting
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The general finding is important, though: white male right-handed
medical/psychology students might not be representative, yet they
are the white lab rats of much of cognitive science. Of course, the
white lab rats are not terribly normal either, when compared to the
wild type...<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>In any case, I never would have
guessed it: an entire population was found who play the game
far differently. In this ultimatum game, the Peruvian first
players would typically offer way less, and the second players
would usually accept. Fascinating! I never thought about it,
but it explains why we have soooo many lawyers in the US.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Europeans among us, how would you play that
game? If I offered you 40, would you take it?</p>
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Probably. It depends a bit on who I think I am playing with. <br>
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I participated in a radio program where we had an entire pub doing
it, and we got people who both accepted 1 (typical business student
thinking) and people who rejected anything below 50. But again, the
educated philosophy-interested public is not particularly normal. In
particular, when asked they had clearly overthought their choices in
complicated ways. So I would offering less to business people and
willing to accept less from them, while increasing things when I
thought I was dealing with more emotional and less game-theoretic
westerners. <br>
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The real fun starts, IMHO, when you give people a sniff of oxytocin.
Then people become more generous:<br>
<a
href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001128">http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001128</a><br>
There is a lot of research about how oxytocin changes people's
altruism, generosity and willingness to punish defectors - and
in-group favoritism - in economic games. <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University </pre>
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