"Here’s an experiment to illustrate it: **you are given $100 and must share it with a stranger. You can decide how it is divided up. If the other person is happy with your suggestion, the money will be divided that way. If he or she turns down your offer, you must return the $100, and no one gets anything**. How do you split the sum? “**It would make sense to offer the stranger very little – maybe just a dollar. After all, it’s better than nothing.** However, in the 1980s, when economists began experimenting with such ‘ultimatum games’ (the technical term), the subjects behaved very differently: **they offered the other party between 30% and 50%. Anything below 30% was considered ‘unfair’.** The ultimatum game is one of the clearest manifestations of the ‘theory of mind’: in short, we empathise with the other person." -- --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[personification]], [[news-illusion]], [[liking-bias]], [[collaboration]] **Source** — [[202308101525 — B — The Art of Thinking Clearly]]