Evaluating Economic Models with Experimental Evidence
A purely self-interested economic agent is assumed to always choose the option that maximizes their own material payoff. Evaluate this assumption using the typical results from a one-shot bargaining experiment where one person (a Proposer) offers a split of a sum of money to another person (a Responder), who can accept or reject the offer. In your response, first describe the behavior this self-interested model would predict for both participants. Then, contrast this prediction with commonly observed experimental outcomes and explain what these outcomes reveal about the social preferences that influence human decision-making.
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