Does culture matter in economic behavior? Ultimatum game bargaining among the machiguenga

By Joseph Henrich. 2000

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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Confusion or fairness in the field? Rejections in the ultimatum game under the strategy method (2006, background): “It has also been tested in a variety of environments (see, for example, Roth et al., 1991; Slonim and Roth, 1998; Cameron, 1999; Henrich, 2000; Henrich et al., 2001).”
Foundations of Human Sociality - Economic Experiments and Ethnographic: Evidence From Fifteen Small-Scale Societies (2004, methodology): “Henrich (2000) attempted to control for some of this effect by replicating the Machiguenga Ultimatum Game protocol with University of California, Los Angeles anthropology graduate students.”
Monkeys reject unequal pay (2003, background): “Although there exists substantial cultural variation in its particulars, this ‘sense of fairness’ is probably a human universa”
Social value orientations and the strategic use of fairness in ultimatum bargaining (2004, background): “behavior. For example, in some cultures, like the Peruvian Machiguenga ( Henrich, 2000;”
“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies (2005, methodology): “The Machiguenga, for example, have a mode at full defection, but lack any fully cooperative contributions, which yields a mean contribution of 22%.”
Evolutionary Origins of the Endowment Effect: Evidence from Hunter-Gatherers (2014, background): “The closest papers to ours are the economic experiments by Henrich (2000); Henrich et al. (2001, 2006) in isolated small-scale societies; and Roth et al.’s (1991) study of bargaining behavior in four countries.”
Collective action initiatives to improve marketing performance: Lessons from farmer groups in Tanzania (2009, background): “The PGG is well known within the field of experimental economics and has been applied in several cross-cultural studies (Gurven 2004; Henrich 2000).”
Market Integration and Fairness: Evidence from Ultimatum, Dictator, and Public Goods Experiments in East Africa (2001, background): “Henrich, Joseph 2000 Ultimatum Game Bargaining among the Machiguenga: Why Culture Matters in Economic Behavior.”
Cultural Differences in Ultimatum Game Experiments: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis (2004, background): “Henrich (2000) reports differences between 18-30 olds Machiguenga men of the Peruvian Amazon and students at UCLA, with the former offering smaller amounts than the latter.”
The influence of cultural framing on play in the trust game: A maasai example (2007, background): “Although one of the main motivations behind the use of such games has been a desire to explore the influence of culture on behavior (e.g., Henrich, 2000), both critical and sympathetic commentators (e.g., Chibnik, 2005; Hagen & Hammerstein, 2006) have decried these studies' lack of attention to…”
Pay what you Want: A New Participative Pricing Mechanism (2009, unknown): “Microeconomic experiments, such as the “ultimatum game” (Bolton 1991; Fehr and Schmidt 2003; Henrich 2000; Roth 1995), also weaken the hypothesis that consumers mostly act in a selfish and rational manner.”