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Serhiy Kandul1,2, Olexandr Nikolaychuk3
1Institute for Biomedical Ethics and Medical History, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
One's willingness to accept an outcome or even to correct it depends on whether the underlying procedure is deemed legitimate. We examine a modified version of the dictator game, where dictatorship is assigned by a fair procedure that is linked to the participant actions but in effect is completely random, to illustrate that this belief is not independent of the outcome and is self-serving in its nature. We also discuss the perceptions of fairness and merit as potential drivers of the observed behavioral phenomenon.
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