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I win it’s fair, you win it’s not. Selective heeding of merit in ambiguous settings

One’s willingness to accept an outcome or even to correct it depends on whether the underlying procedure is deemed legitimate. We examine a modified version of the dictator game, where dictatorship is assigned by a fair procedure that is linked to the participant actions but in effect is completely...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Kandul, Serhiy, Nikolaychuk, Olexandr
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9821486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36608024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279865
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Sumario:One’s willingness to accept an outcome or even to correct it depends on whether the underlying procedure is deemed legitimate. We examine a modified version of the dictator game, where dictatorship is assigned by a fair procedure that is linked to the participant actions but in effect is completely random, to illustrate that this belief is not independent of the outcome and is self-serving in its nature. We also discuss the perceptions of fairness and merit as potential drivers of the observed behavioral phenomenon.