{"id":1591,"date":"2014-05-20T19:27:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T00:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2014-11-14T23:38:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T04:38:57","slug":"does-spite-pay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/does-spite-pay-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Does spite pay off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1569\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Money.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1569\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1569\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Money.jpg\" alt=\"The classic \u201cultimatum game\u201d has one player decide how to split a pot of money, and another decide whether or not to accept it. New research shows that players are less willing to accept an unfair offer if the opponent is perceived as a direct, rather than indirect, competitor. (Photo credit: Rick, via flickr)\" width=\"400\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Money.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Money-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The classic \u201cultimatum game\u201d has one player decide how to split a pot of money, and another decide whether or not to accept it. New research shows that players are less willing to accept an unfair offer if the opponent is perceived as a direct, rather than indirect, competitor. (Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spine\/214759009\">Rick, via flickr<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New research suggests our desire for fairness come not from altruism, but from a need to prevent local competitors from gaining an advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Researchers used a variation of the classic ultimatum game, in which one player decides how to split a pot of money, and the other decides whether to accept it; a rejection means both parties get nothing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The study showed that people were were less willing to accept unfair offers if their opponent was perceived as a direct, rather than indirect competitor, suggesting that the need to keep the local playing field level outweighs the benefit of receiving a small amount of a resource.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/10\/5\/20140213.abstract?sid=e70f6047-aaee-4b81-afb7-07f57c61380b\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the the Journal\u00a0<em>Biology Letters<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 20, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uoguelph.ca\/psychology\/page.cfm?id=865\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Barclay<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, University of Guelph, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests our desire for fairness come not from altruism, but from a need to prevent local competitors from gaining an advantage. Researchers used a variation of the classic ultimatum game, in which one player decides how to split a pot of money, and the other decides whether to accept it; a rejection means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1509,1510,1272,50,1508],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-altruism","tag-behaviour","tag-economics","tag-ontario","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Money.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-pF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}