TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mussel, Patrick
A1  - Göritz, Anja S.
A1  - Hewig, Johannes
T1  - The value of a smile: Facial expression affects ultimatum-game responses
JF  - Judgment and Decision Making
N2  - In social interaction, the facial expression of an opponent contains information that may influence the interaction. We asked whether facial expression affects decision-making in the ultimatum game. In this two-person game, the proposer divides a sum of money into two parts, one for each player, and then the responder decides whether to accept the offer or reject it. Rejection means that neither player gets any money. Results of a large-sample study support our hypothesis that offers from proposers with a smiling facial expression are more often accepted, compared to a neutral facial expression. Moreover, we found lower acceptance rates for offers from proposers with an angry facial expression.
KW  - ultimatum game
KW  - emotions
KW  - decision-making
KW  - facial expressions
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-129639
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
ER  -