a. In the baseline condition of John List’s study (2007), both people in the dictator game setup were given $5 to start with. Then the dictator received another $5 and was given the chance to allocate anywhere from $0 to all $5 to the other person. Three additional conditions had interesting twists. In the Take ($1) condition, the setup was the same including the chance to allocate money, but now instead there was an option to take $1 from the other person. The Take ($5) condition, as its name suggests, allowed up to $5 to be taken from the other person (or $5 allocated, or nothing taken or allocated). Finally, in the Earnings condition, everything was the same as Take ($5) except the dictator earned the $10 for performing a 30-minute task beforehand. Here were the results (List 2007: 487):