On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 04:10:26PM -0400, David Honig wrote:
Science V 289 8 Sept 2000 p 1773-1775
"Fairness vs Reason in the Ultimatum Game" Nowak, Page, Sigmund
(from the abstract)
"The rational solution, suggested by game theory, is for the proposer to offer the smallest possible share and for teh responder to accept it. If humans play the game, however, the most frequent outcome is a fair share. In this paper, we develop an evolutionary approach to the Ultimatum Game. We show that fairness will evolve if the proposer can obtain some information on what deals the responder has accepted in the past. Hence, the evolution of fairness, similarly to the evolution of cooperation, is linked to reputation"
This also mentioned in the Economist in the last couple weeks. Their article made the obvious ebay/auction tie. -- Eric Murray http://www.lne.com/ericm ericm at lne.com PGP keyid:E03F65E5 Consulting Security Architect