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>more than 96 percent of the subjects tested in psychological studies from 2003 to 2007 were Westerners—with nearly 70 percent from the United States alone.

And I didnt see any data from what happens when they did the "money game" with Europeans, Asians, Africans, even developed South Americans.



Probably due to the narrow focus:

"Recent comparative work has dramatically altered this initial picture. Two unified projects (which we call Phase 1 and Phase 2) have deployed the Ultimatum Game and other related experimental tools across thousands of sub- jects randomly sampled from 23 small-scale human societies, including foragers, horticulturalists, pastoralists, and subsistence farmers, drawn from Africa, Amazonia, Oceania, Siberia, and New Guinea"

from: http://hci.ucsd.edu/102b/readings/WeirdestPeople.pdf


There's been at least one meta-analysis of data with the game: http://www.econ.nagoya-cu.ac.jp/~yhamagu/ultimatum.pdf It doesn't really come to anything approaching a definitive conclusion though; in general, results vary for reasons that are unclear.




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