One group of participants played the dictator game basically as described in the article.

One game used to measure levels of cooperation is through the dictator game.

On this interpretation dictator game giving is a response to demand characteristics of the experiment.

In the taking game, the range includes worse alternatives than the dictator game.

In the canonical formation of the dictator game, there are two anonymous unrelated participants.

Dictator game - The subject chooses how a reward should be split between himself and another subject.

"Subjects might perceive dictator games as being about giving, since they can either do nothing or give, and so ask themselves how much to give.

In a dictator game, the person in given power offers a proposal and the recipient would have to accept that offer.

The trust game, an extension of the dictator game, provides additional evidence for strong reciprocity.

Modifications of the dictator game and prisoner's dilemma provide support for the willingness to engage in costly third party punishment.

The dictator game is a game in experimental economics, similar to the ultimatum game.

For instance, the ultimatum game and similarly the dictator game have different strategies for each player.

(Dictator games in experimental economics are unrelated to this.)

Despite this formal point, the dictator game is used in the game theory literature as a degenerate game.

The idea that the highly mixed results of the Dictator game prove or disprove rationality in economics is not widely accepted.

The results (along with similar results in the Dictator game) are taken to be evidence against the Homo economicus model of individual decisions.

This suggests that dictator game behavior is, in fact, altruism instead of the failure of optimizing behavior.

Oxytocin did not affect the minimum acceptance threshold or offers in the dictator game (meant to measure altruism).

This game is very similar to the previously described dictator game in which the allocator divides a sum of money between himself and a recipient.

The modified dictator game is exactly the same as the traditional dictator game but with a third party observing.

In the dictator game, the first player, "the proposer", determines an allocation (split) of some endowment (such as a cash prize).

Some authors have suggested that giving in the dictator game does not entail that individuals wish to maximize others' benefit (altruism).

Ultimatum game - The dictator game is played, but the recipient is allowed to veto the entire deal, so that both subjects receive nothing.

The basis for any of these measures is the decomposed game technique, i.e. a set of non-constant-sum dictator games.

However, in the centipede game, guess 2/3 of the average game, and the dictator game, people regularly do not play Nash equilibria.