Kurtis J. Swope
U. S. Naval Academy
John Cadigan
American University
Pamela M. Schmitt
U. S. Naval Academy
Robert Shupp
Ball State University
Abstract
Student volunteers at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) participated in
one of the following one-shot games: a dictator game, an ultimatum game,
a trust game, or a prisoner’s dilemma game. We find limited support for
the importance of personality type for explaining subjects’ decisions.
With controls for personality preferences, we find little evidence of behavioral
differences between males and females. Furthermore, we conclude that
seniority breeds feelings of entitlement - seniors at USNA generally exhibited
the least cooperative or other-regarding behavior.