Differences in fairness and trust between lean and corpulent men

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2016.134" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2016.134</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2016.134" target="_blank" >10.1038/ijo.2016.134</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Differences in fairness and trust between lean and corpulent men

Original language description

BACKGROUND: Employment disparities are known to exist between lean and corpulent people, for example, corpulent people are less likely to be hired and get lower wages. The reasons for these disparities between weight groups are not completely understood. We hypothesize (i) that economic decision making differs between lean and corpulent subjects, (ii) that these differences are influenced by peoples' blood glucose concentrations and (iii) by the body weight of their opponents. nMETHODS: A total of 20 lean and 20 corpulent men were examined, who performed a large set of economic games (ultimatum game, trust game and risk game) under euglycemic and hypoglycemic conditions induced by the glucose clamp technique. nRESULTS: In the ultimatum game, lean men made less fair decisions and offered 16% less money than corpulent men during euglycemia (P = 0.042). During hypoglycemia, study participants of both weight groups accepted smaller amounts of money than during euglycemia (P = 0.031), indicating that a lack of energy makes subjects to behave more like a Homo Economicus. In the trust game, lean men allocated twice as much money to lean than to corpulent trustees during hypoglycemia (P<0.001). Risk-seeking behavior did not differ between lean and corpulent men. nCONCLUSION: Our data show that economic decision making is affected by both, the body weight of the participants and the body weight of their opponents, and that blood glucose concentrations should be taken into consideration when analyzing economic decision making. When relating these results to the working environment, the weight bias in economic decision making may be also relevant for employment disparities.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AH - Economics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Obesity

ISSN

0307-0565

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

40

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

1802-1808

UT code for WoS article

000388127600029

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84984656525