<p>I believe everyone has experienced something like the following once in her or his life :</p>

<ul>
<li>There is a cake on the table and three people to share it.</li>
<li>The three people each eat a quarter of the cake.</li>
<li>They wait.</li>
<li>After some time, brave miss 1 eats another eighth.</li>
<li>After some more time, bold mister 2 cuts another 16th and eats it.</li>
<li>Then miss 3 cuts another 32th and eats it.</li>
<li>etc.</li>
</ul>

<p>Is this kind of behavior where people do not want to grab the last part of the pie (i.e., social endowment) documented in experimental economics?</p>

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2016-07-19T23:32:14.890Z
You might find this related question over on cogsci interesting. http://cogsci.stackexchange.com/q/8182
CommonerG
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2016-07-19T23:34:30.437Z
I can't find any direct evidence of the behavior you are asking about in experimental economics. However, one place to look for related behavior is in common-pool resource games. Is there evidence that players avoid being the one to completely exhaust a resource even though they were happy to deplete it?
CommonerG
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Don't let me take the last bit
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# Don't let me take the last bit

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-07-18)

I believe everyone has experienced something like the following once in her or his life :

* There is a cake on the table and three people to share it.
* The three people each eat a quarter of the cake.
* They wait.
* After some time, brave miss 1 eats another eighth.
* After some more time, bold mister 2 cuts another 16th and eats it.
* Then miss 3 cuts another 32th and eats it.
* etc.

Is this kind of behavior where people do not want to grab the last part of the pie (i.e., social endowment) documented in experimental economics?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: You might find this related question over on cogsci interesting. http://cogsci.stackexchange.com/q/8182  
> **username_1**: I can't find any direct evidence of the behavior you are asking about in experimental economics. However, one place to look for related behavior is in common-pool resource games. Is there evidence that players avoid being the one to completely exhaust a resource even though they were happy to deplete it?  

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