The Ultimatum Game is one of the most successful experimental designs in the history of the social sciences. In this paper I try to explain this success what makes it a paradigmatic experiment stressing in particular its versatility. Despite the intentions of its inventors, the Ultimatum Game was never a good design to test economic theory, and is now mostly used as a heuristic tool for the observation of nonstandard preferences or as a social thermometer for the observation of culture‐specific norms
Esperimenti paradigmatici : il gioco dell’ultimatum / F. Guala. - In: HUMANA.MENTE. - ISSN 1972-1293. - 2009:10(2009 Jul), pp. 1-10.
Esperimenti paradigmatici : il gioco dell’ultimatum
F. GualaPrimo
2009
Abstract
The Ultimatum Game is one of the most successful experimental designs in the history of the social sciences. In this paper I try to explain this success what makes it a paradigmatic experiment stressing in particular its versatility. Despite the intentions of its inventors, the Ultimatum Game was never a good design to test economic theory, and is now mostly used as a heuristic tool for the observation of nonstandard preferences or as a social thermometer for the observation of culture‐specific norms
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