Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25735 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2008,048
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
We experimentally investigate how affective processes influence proposers' and responders' behaviour in the Ultimatum Game. Using a dualsystem approach, we tax cognitive resources through time pressure and cognitive load to enhance the influence of affective processes on behaviour. We find that proposers offer more under time pressure and this seems to be due to strategic considerations rather than to other-regarding concerns. We also find that responders are more likely to reject under time pressure. Surprisingly, both proposers and responders appear to be unaffected by cognitive load manipulation.
Subjects: 
Ultimatum game
dual-system theories
time pressure
cognitive load
experimental economics.
JEL: 
C72
C78
C91
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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