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Overcoming Selfishness: Reciprocity, Inhibition, and Cardiac-Autonomic Control in the Ultimatum Game

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Title
Overcoming Selfishness: Reciprocity, Inhibition, and Cardiac-Autonomic Control in the Ultimatum Game
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Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00173
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Stefan Sütterlin, Cornelia Herbert, Michael Schmitt, Andrea Kübler, Claus Vögele

Abstract

The processes underlying decision-making in response to unfair offers in the ultimatum game (UG) have recently been discussed in light of models of reciprocity and fairness-related behavior. It has been suggested that behavior following norm-oriented, internalized expectations of reciprocity requires overcoming economic self-interest. In this study we investigated both, behavioral and peripheral-physiological indicators of inhibitory capacity related to neuronal networks that are likely to be involved in the behavioral response to unfair offers. Both heart-rate variability as an index of inhibitory capacity, and performance in a motor response inhibition task predicted rejection of unfair offers in an UG, suggesting an important role of inhibitory processes in overcoming economic temptations and regulating behavior conforming to social norms of reciprocity and fairness. The role of parasympathetic activity as a physiological trait-marker predicting inter-individual differences in the rejection of unfair offers is discussed.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Unknown 75 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 18%
Student > Bachelor 13 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 16%
Student > Master 10 13%
Other 5 6%
Other 14 18%
Unknown 9 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 38 49%
Neuroscience 5 6%
Engineering 4 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 4%
Other 11 14%
Unknown 13 17%
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