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How Fairly do Chimpanzees Play the Ultimatum Game?

Proctor, Darby
Brosnan, Sarah F
de Waal, Frans B.M.
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Humans can behave fairly, but can other species? Recently we tested chimpanzees on a classic human test for fairness, the Ultimatum Game, and found that they behaved similarly to humans. In humans, Ultimatum Game behavior is cited as evidence for a human sense of fairness. By that same logic, we concluded that chimpanzees behaved fairly in our recent study. However, we make a distinction between behavior and motivation. Both humans and chimpanzees behaved fairly, but determining why they did so is more challenging.

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This open access article was originally published in the journal Communicative & Integrative Biology. Copyright © 2013 Landes Bioscience. The version of record is posted here with the permission of the publisher and author.
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2013-01-01
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chimpanzee, ultimatum game, fairness, behavioral economics, primate
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Proctor, D., Brosnan, S.F. & de Waal, F.B.M. (2013). How Fairly do Chimpanzees Play the Ultimatum Game? Communicative & Integrative Biology, 6(3), e23819. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220806110
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