Models of the evolution of fairness in the ultimatum game: a review and classification

S Debove, N Baumard, JB André - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2016 - Elsevier
In the ultimatum game, two people need to agree on the division of a sum of money. People
usually divide money equally for the sake of fairness, and prefer to suffer financial losses …

Evolutionary dynamics of group fairness

FP Santos, FC Santos, A Paiva, JM Pacheco - Journal of theoretical biology, 2015 - Elsevier
The emergence and impact of fairness is commonly studied in the context of 2-person
games, notably the Ultimatum Game. Often, however, humans face problems of collective …

A path toward fairness: Preferential association and the evolution of strategies in the ultimatum game

YS Chiang - Rationality and Society, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent experimental findings on behavioral games show that subjects do not behave in a
self-interest-maximizing manner as would be predicted by game theory. An evolutionary …

Evolution of fairness in the not quite ultimatum game

G Ichinose, H Sayama - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Ultimatum Game (UG) is an economic game where two players (proposer and
responder) decide how to split a certain amount of money. While traditional economic …

Random allocation of pies promotes the evolution of fairness in the Ultimatum Game

X Wang, X Chen, L Wang - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract In the Ultimatum Game, two players are offered a chance to win a pie. The proposer
suggests how to split the pie. The responder can either accept or reject the deal. If an …

The evolution of fairness through spite

P Forber, R Smead - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The presence of apparently irrational fair play in the ultimatum game remains a focal point
for studies in the evolution of social behaviour. We investigate the role of negative …

Play and the evolution of fairness: a game theory model

LA Dugatkin, M Bekoff - Behavioural processes, 2003 - Elsevier
Bekoff [J. Consci. Stud. 8 (2001) 81] argued that mammalian social play is a useful
behavioral phenotype on which to concentrate in order to learn more about the evolution of …

Strategy intervention for the evolution of fairness

Y Zhang, F Fu - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The 'irrational'preference for fairness has attracted increasing attention. Although previous
studies have focused on the effects of spitefulness on the evolution of fairness, they did not …

Fair and unfair punishers coexist in the Ultimatum Game

P Brañas-Garza, AM Espín, F Exadaktylos… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract In the Ultimatum Game, a proposer suggests how to split a sum of money with a
responder. If the responder rejects the proposal, both players get nothing. Rejection of unfair …

The indirect evolutionary approach to explaining fair allocations

S Huck, J Oechssler - Games and economic behavior, 1999 - Elsevier
Experimental results on the ultimatum game show clearly that (1) large fractions of players
offer a “fair” allocation and (2) that unfair (but positive) offers are systematically rejected. We …