The dictator game is a two-person allocation experiment in which one participant, the dictator, unilaterally divides an endowment between the two participants. The recipient has no action and must accept the allocation.
Because the recipient makes no strategic choice, the dictator game is technically a decision experiment rather than a game in the strict game-theoretic sense. It is used experimentally to measure distributional preferences, fairness, and departures from purely self-interested allocation.
