Based on experiments such as these, de Waal came to believe that the sense of fairness observed in monkeys is egocentric.
Robin Marsh, UK secretary general of the Federation, spoke of the "innate sense of fairness and decency" that informed Lord King's decisions and his support for persecuted groups and disadvantaged minorities.
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But the Italian showed a sense of fairness in recalling the former England captain, once he had demonstrated his commitment to the team's cause.
He is correct that shareholders need to pay the same taxes as everyone else, for such is congruent with the basic sense of American fairness that he grew up with.
IR It seems strange how much conditioning can change the world's sense of fairness, including, I'm afraid, The Economist's.
As in the other experiments, the sellers had a much greater sense of fairness when they dealt with the high-status buyers.
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The President pushed very hard, in the name of common sense and fairness, for balance, just as he had when he was trying to negotiate a grand bargain.
Yet, having spoken to Levine and others (including an experienced litigator) who did not want to be quoted in any way to do the sensitive nature of the case, I still think something about it violates my sense of fairness.
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To ensure a sense of fairness in the execution of this plan, the NCAA needs to be willing to help subsidize as much as 100% of these added costs for schools in need.
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As an antidote to this picture, he offers plenty of evidence of apparently selfless sacrifice, unforced sympathy, co-operation and even a keen sense of fairness in our closest animal relatives, who evolved to reap the benefits of mutual aid.
Biology provides some of the general primate psychology that we have, like pro-social tendencies, sense of fairness, following rules.
The idea of debt depends on a common sense of fairness: if you borrow and don't pay back, justice is violated.
We are, after all, dealing with a society made up of human beings and one of the things that behavioural economics is reminding us of is that humans have a very strong sense of fairness.
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Nor, according to the third of this convenient trilogy of papers, is a sense of fairness rooted in culture.
It is hard to avoid the view that the Committee has sometimes allowed preconceived judgments to cloud its objectivity and sense of fairness.
To find out if chimpanzees share this sense of fairness, Keith Jensen and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, designed a way for chimps to play the ultimatum game.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Scientists offer fresh evidence that chimpanzees, like humans, have an innate sense of fairness but other researchers take issue with the findings.
We will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.
We will root out the waste, fraud and abuse in our Medicare program that doesn't make our seniors any healthier, and we will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.
The usual interpretation of this is that human beings are indeed imbued with a very strong sense of fairness.
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The move towards an equivalent of America's earned-income tax credit (a key part of the fairness programme, albeit borrowed from the wrong side) does make sense.
Besides showing that a sense of fairness has a genetic basis, this result also raises a question: why should the sense of what is fair be so variable?
If we allow our safety net to be weakened, or lose a sense of fairness in our tax code, then we can expect more anger and frustration from citizens across the political spectrum.
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