Fairness & ReciprocityWhere people sacrifice money to punish unfairness.EconomicsFindings from experimental games.FindingsLow offers rejected in ultimatum gamesCostly punishment of free ridersCooperation higher than predictedReciprocity in both directionsFairness norms vary across culturesImplicationsPerceived fairness affects price acceptanceContracts rely on norms, not only enforcementReputation systems change behaviourPay comparisons matter within firmsRelative pay within an organisation affects effort and retentionindependently of the absolute level.Fairness & Reciprocitylearnposters.com
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What’s on the Fairness & Reciprocity poster

9 entries in 2 groups.

Findings from experimental games.

Relative pay within an organisation affects effort and retention independently of the absolute level.

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What’s on the Fairness & Reciprocity poster?
9 entries in 2 groups. Findings from experimental games. Findings: Low offers rejected in ultimatum games, Costly punishment of free riders, C…; Implications: Perceived fairness affects price acceptance, Contracts rely on norms, n…. Relative pay within an organisation affects effort and retention independently of the absolute level.
Who is the Fairness & Reciprocity poster for?
Fairness & Reciprocity belongs to the Economics section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning behavioural economics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Fairness & Reciprocity poster?
Standard theory predicts accepting any positive offer. People routinely do not. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Fairness & Reciprocity belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Fairness & Reciprocity?
Critiques of Behavioural Economics, Behavioural Finance and Choice Overload sit alongside Fairness & Reciprocity in the Economics section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Critiques of Behavioural EconomicsBehavioural FinanceChoice Overload
Is the Fairness & Reciprocity poster free to download and print?
Yes. Fairness & Reciprocity downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Economics section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Fairness & Reciprocity poster print at?
Fairness & Reciprocity is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Fairness & Reciprocity loses nothing.Printing guide

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