Episode 18: "Boy If Life Were Only Like This" (With Joe Henrich)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Inequity Aversion of the Capuchins
In half the societies we study, people reject offers above 50%. We don't. Do Westerners do this? No. Typical student populations don't. There's some experiments from Sweden where you begin to see that growth of the tail. You get the highest amounts at 100% offers amongst non-student adults. And there you see the beginnings of this aversion to... So 50-50 is clearly the right thing to do. They're much less willing to punish on this side,. but it seems they have some taste for driving people back to 50-50.
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