Fairness is Intuitive

Alexander Wright Cappelen; Ulrik H. Nielsen; Bertil Tungodden; Jean-Robert Tyran; Erik Wengström

Fairness is Intuitive

Alexander Wright Cappelen
, Ulrik H. Nielsen
, Bertil Tungodden
, Jean-Robert Tyran
, Erik Wengström

Publications: Working paper

Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Publisher	NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	0804-6824
Publication status	Published - Apr 2014

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

502045 Behavioural economics

Keywords

Experiment
Fairness
response time

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Fairness is intuitive
Cappelen, A. W., Nielsen, U. H., Tungodden, B., Tyran, J.-R. & Wengström, E., Dec 2016, In: Experimental Economics. 19, 4, p. 727–740 14 p.
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