Asymmetrical interaction best explained by superrational rather than rational strategy

This View of Life “How Fairness Depends On Your Social Status”

I found this study — which I am discovering a bit late — to be really interesting in light of a paper I published with co-authors earlier this year. It seems that when interactions are asymmetric, players in a “dominant” position tend to be more likely to provide a public good in the face of cheating by their “subordinate” co-players. The pattern is superrational; the question is what mechanism produces superrational — rather than rational — game playing.