Anticipated verbal feedback in a dictator game has been shown to induce altruistic behavior. However, in the ultimatum game which, apart from generosity, entails a strategic component since a proposer may (rightly) fear that the responder will reject a low offer, it remains an open question...

How people attribute the others’ previous actions often influences their feeling of inequality and then their subsequent responses. In a bilateral ultimatum bargaining game with both inequality aversion and incomplete information, a greedy offer can be attributed to either the proposer’s...