Answer the following questions as best as possible given your understanding of the assigned reading(s).
- What are the central research questions of the study?
- How did the researchers vary the level of fairness in the experimental design?
- Were the subjects matched with a “real” partner? What is the problem with this? (Hint: Where was this article published?)
- How were subjects’ decisions connected to their earnings? Was this an issue for saliency? Explain why or why not.
- What were the main results from Experiment 1? What did we learn about human behavior and preferences towards fairness?
- What did Experiment 2 (with the fMRI) reveal about the physical connection between brain and human behavior? What did we learn about accepting unfair outcomes?
- What was the most interesting part of this study (to you) and what would you consider to be the central finding/take-away of the article?
