How malleable are people's fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is … still unclear whether and to what extent people's allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory … experiment whether people's fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation …

' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the disadvantaged player makes between pursuing a fair outcome from a disadvantaged … weak players persist in seeking "fairness" is also a function of how much it (potentially) costs them to do so. Students …-cost bargainers to demand fairness and to persist in their demands was a function of how much it cost them to do so, and the degree to …