Conditions for Establishing a System of Fairness: Comment on Brosnan (2006)
Brosnan (2006) proposed that animal responses to inequity mirror human response tendencies that are summarized as inequity aversion. In this comment two issues are raised. The first issue deals with the assumption of continuity between humans and nonhuman species in reference to cooperative behaviour. The second issue focuses on the idea that the state of inequity aversion may motivate intervention processes.