Nature's influence alters behavior in dictator game experiments, revealing societal norms.
The study looked at how people's decisions in a game were influenced by an outside force called "nature". When nature's actions were more likely to change the outcome, players were more likely to copy nature's move. Even when players knew their decisions were being watched, they still changed their choices based on nature's actions. This shows that not only did nature's intervention affect how players wanted to appear fair, but also what they thought was the right thing to do. Overall, the behavior of players was different depending on whether their decisions were seen by others or not.