Given this last thought, a natural prediction to make about how ultimatum games will go is the following. Offerers will want to maximize their self-interest, and so maximize their take-home payment. They might think that, from a responder’s perspective, any money is better than no money. So we might predict that the offer itself will be as low as possible, say 1 cent or 5 cents in our example involving $10. For the responder to reject this offer would be irrational, since he would come away with nothing, whereas accepting the offer would make him better off than he would otherwise have been.