We explore whether the recent laboratory findings that suggest the origin of endowment matters in simple bargaining games are actually due to contextual shifts of relative effort and deservingness. Results support previous findings of endowment origin yielding more self-interested behavior.

Laboratory auctions show that consumers may be willing to pay more for pathogen-free food products treated with technologies such as irradiation, but the degree to which they are willing to pay may depend on the messages ï¾– pro and con ï¾– they hear and read.