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Experiment ·The Ultimatum Game
Two players can split $100. One player proposes how to split. The other player decides to accept or reject. If accept, the split is as proposed. If reject, both parties get nothing.
Explanation Details ·Our emotions are evolved for repeated public interactions
We have a reputation to maintain. If we accept an "unfair" offer, then we are advertising to our social group that we can be treated unfairly. Hence, we instinctively reject such offers. Even though in the instance of the experiment, rejecting makes no sense and is actually to our detriment.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Phenomenon-hypothesis
24.
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Question Type
Implied
It’s difficult to predict the correct answer just based on the question stem, so let’s use process of elimination.
a
one that requires ███ █████████ ██ ███████ █████ ██ ████ █████
The concept of trust isn’t brought up anywhere in the passage. So there’s no support that the author believes the Ultimatum Game requires strangers to trust each other.
b
responsible for overturning █ █████ ██████████ ██ ███████████ █████████
The author never suggests that the Ultimatum Game has overturned the assumption that people make economic decisions primarily out of rational self-interest. It’s possible that people still make economic decisions primarily out of self-interest, but with a few exceptions.
c
a situation that ███████ █████████████ ███████
The author doesn’t suggest that the results of the Ultimatum Game are unpredictable. In fact, the evidence shows we can predict at least some of the behavior — we get statistics about typical behaviors in P2. Two-thirds can be expected to offer between 40 and 50 percent. Only 4 in 100 offer less than 20 percent.
d
a type of █████████ █████████ ███████████
Supported. In P4, the author endorses the explanation that our emotions have been shaped by living in small groups, where we engage in repeated interactions with others. Because of these repeated interactions, we needed to respond angrily to low offers when splitting resources, or else we’d get a reputation for accepting low offers. The author believes this emotional tendency carries over to the Ultimatum Game, because our emotions don’t discriminate between one-shot, anonymous interactions and repeated interactions. The way we responded to repeated interactions as we evolved carries over to the one-shot, anonymous interaction in the Ultimatum Game.
The author doesn’t view the Ultimatum Game as “proof” that our emotions have been shaped by living in small groups. Rather, the author offers the hypothesis that our emotions have been shaped by living in small groups as an explanation for the results of the Ultimatum Game. The behaviors observed in the Ultimatum Game are a phenomenon that the author tries to explain. But they are not proof of the author’s explanation.
Difficulty
69% of people who answer get this correct
This is a difficult question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%149
157
75%166
Analysis
Implied
Critique or debate
Phenomenon-hypothesis
Science
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
2%
156
b
9%
159
c
6%
161
d
69%
166
e
15%
159
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