NDLI: Kinship, Family, and Gender Effects in the Ultimatum Game

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Author	Macfarlan, Shane J. Quinlan, Robert J.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Kinship and reciprocity are two main predictors of altruism. The ultimatum game has been used to study altruism in many small-scale societies. We used the ultimatum game to examine effects of individuals’ family and kin relations on altruistic behavior in a kin-based horticultural community in rural Dominica. Results show sex-specific effects of kin on ultimatum game play. Average coefficient of relatedness to the village was negatively associated with women’s ultimatum game proposals and had little effect on men’s proposals. Number of brothers in the village was positively associated with men’s ultimatum game proposals and negatively associated with women’s proposals. Similarly, presence of father in the village was associated with higher proposals by men and lower proposals by women. We interpret the effect of brothers on men’s proposals as a consequence of local competition among brothers. We speculate that daughter-biased parental care in this community creates a sense of entitlement among women with brothers, which may explain the inverse relation between number of brothers and women’s ultimatum game proposals. The pattern of results may be consistent with how matrifocality affects cultural models of fairness differently along gender and family lines.
Starting Page	294
Ending Page	309
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10456767
Journal	Human Nature
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	19364776
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2008-07-31
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Game theory Ultimatum game Kinship Reciprocity Altruism Dominica Biological Psychology Behavioural Sciences Anthropology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Arts and Humanities Anthropology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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