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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Volume 75, Issue 5, Pages 658-669Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/594512
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The Ultimatum Game is one of the most successful experimental designs in the history of the social sciences. In this article I try to explain this success-what makes it a paradigmatic experiment-stressing in particular its versatility. Despite the intentions of its inventors, the Ultimatum Game was never a good design to test economic theory, and it is now mostly used as a heuristic tool for the observation of nonstandard preferences or as a social thermometer for the observation of culture-specific norms.
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