[dragontamer]

Inequity Aversion only exists in America and other Westernized countries btw. We're WEIRD like that.

Different cultures respond differently to the Ultimatum Game. Be wary of those studies that only use "Anglo-Saxon American College Kids" as test subjects, which is a group of people that isn't even representative of America in general.

http://bigthink.com/praxis/are-americans-the-weirdest-people...

>>> The revelation that rural Peruvians handle the ultimatum game so differently from American respondents led Henrich on a MacArthur Foundation-funded research trip to more than a dozen more locales around the world, where he found wide variation in the average offers of player #1 and this curious result: “in some societies — ones where gift-giving is heavily used to curry favor or gain allegiance — the first player would often make overly generous offers in excess of 60 percent, and the second player would often reject them, behaviors almost never observed among Americans.”

[crdoconnor]

>Inequity Aversion only exists in America and other Westernized countries btw.

Monkeys do it:

http://www.livescience.com/2044-monkeys-fuss-inequality.html