Heartbeat and Economic Decisions: Observing Mental Stress among Proposers and Responders in the Ultimatum Bargaining Game

被引:22
作者
Dulleck, Uwe [1 ]
Schaffner, Markus [1 ]
Torgler, Benno [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Queensland Univ Technol, Sch Econ & Finance, Queensland Behav Econ Grp QuBE, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia
[2] CREMA, Basel, Switzerland
[3] Univ Wirtschaft & Recht, EBS, Sch Business, Oestrich Winkel, Germany
来源
PLOS ONE | 2014年 / 9卷 / 09期
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; NEURAL BASIS; FAIRNESS; COOPERATION; UNFAIRNESS; EMOTIONS; GUILT;
D O I
10.1371/journal.pone.0108218
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The ultimatum bargaining game (UBG), a widely used method in experimental economics, clearly demonstrates that motives other than pure monetary reward play a role in human economic decision making. In this study, we explore the behaviour and physiological reactions of both responders and proposers in an ultimatum bargaining game using heart rate variability (HRV), a small and nonintrusive technology that allows observation of both sides of an interaction in a normal experimental economics laboratory environment. We find that low offers by a proposer cause signs of mental stress in both the proposer and the responder; that is, both exhibit high ratios of low to high frequency activity in the HRV spectrum.
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