Proposers' Potential Motivation by Social Preferences
Since Proposers and Responders in the experiment were selected from the same population, it is plausible that Proposers are also influenced by social preferences like fairness and inequality aversion. Consequently, their high offers, such as 40%, may not be solely a strategic calculation to maximize expected payoffs, but could also reflect an intrinsic aversion to inequality.
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