Pymetrics Games Fairness and Trust Scenarios 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Pymetrics tracks response time in fairness decisions. Faster rejections of unfair offers typically indicate:
- More careful deliberation about the offer
- Stronger emotional/intuitive fairness reactions (Correct answer)
- Higher cognitive load during the task
- Greater openness to negotiation
Correct answer: Stronger emotional/intuitive fairness reactions
Fast rejections of unfair offers reflect strong automatic emotional responses rather than slow deliberative reasoning.
Question 2: In a Pymetrics workplace scenario, you notice your team consistently gets fewer resources than a comparable team. Raising this through formal channels is an example of:
- Complaining about management
- Exercising voice to address distributive injustice (Correct answer)
- Undermining organizational hierarchy
- Seeking personal advantage at team expense
Correct answer: Exercising voice to address distributive injustice
Using formal channels to address resource imbalances is a constructive form of voice that addresses distributive injustice.
Question 3: Pymetrics scenario: Two employees make the same mistake. One is a top performer, one is average. Your manager disciplines only the average performer. This violates:
- Procedural fairness — the same process wasn't applied consistently (Correct answer)
- Distributive fairness — resources weren't shared equally
- Restorative fairness — no attempt to repair the relationship
- Meritocratic fairness — rewards don't match performance
Correct answer: Procedural fairness — the same process wasn't applied consistently
Applying different disciplinary standards to employees for the same behavior violates procedural fairness (consistent rule application).
Question 4: In Pymetrics Trust Game research, the amount sent by the trustor (first mover) correlates most strongly with:
- Their income level
- Their general social trust beliefs about strangers (Correct answer)
- Their risk tolerance in financial markets
- Their level of education
Correct answer: Their general social trust beliefs about strangers
Research shows that amounts sent in the Trust Game primarily reflect generalized social trust — how much people trust strangers by default.
Question 5: Pymetrics scenario: You're negotiating a salary and the employer makes a very low first offer. From a fairness and anchoring perspective, what is the best response?
- Accept the first offer to avoid conflict
- Counter with your target number to reset the anchor (Correct answer)
- Walk away immediately to signal the offer was unfair
- Ask for more time to think without countering
Correct answer: Counter with your target number to reset the anchor
Countering with your target number displaces the low anchor and establishes a new reference point more favorable to fair negotiation.
Question 6: Pymetrics assesses 'interactional fairness' separately from procedural and distributive fairness. Interactional fairness primarily concerns:
- Whether outcomes are distributed evenly
- Whether processes follow consistent rules
- Whether people are treated with dignity and respect during decisions (Correct answer)
- Whether all stakeholders had a vote
Correct answer: Whether people are treated with dignity and respect during decisions
Interactional fairness (also called interpersonal fairness) focuses on the quality of treatment and communication during decision processes.
Question 7: In a Pymetrics scenario, you receive a bonus you feel you didn't fully deserve while a colleague who worked equally hard received nothing. The discomfort you feel is called:
- Schadenfreude
- Advantageous inequity aversion (Correct answer)
- Moral licensing
- Outcome bias
Correct answer: Advantageous inequity aversion
Feeling distressed when you receive more than others — even when it benefits you — is advantageous inequity aversion.
Pymetrics Games Fairness and Trust Scenarios 5
Pymetrics tracks response time in fairness decisions.
Faster rejections of unfair offers typically indicate: