The Inequity Aversion of the Capuchins

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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.

Joe Henrich joins the podcast to tell us that we know nothing about his work and that how we got to teach a class in anything is absolutely amazing. We continue our discussion from Episode 17 about his critique of the social and behavioral sciences in "The Weirdest People in the World" and his work in small scale societies on fairness norms. We also talk about the weird American obsession with happiness, monkeys throwing cucumbers, and why some people reject "hyper-fair" offers of more than the half the pot in the ultimatum games.

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