Consider the "Battle of the Sexes" game presented in Figure 15.2. In Rabin's model of fairness if the wife believes that the husband thinks she is going to Boxing and the husband chooses Boxing, then if the wife chooses Boxing she is be altruistic.

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In this scenario, the wife increases her pay-off from choosing Boxing and not Opera. Altruism requires that the wife give up a pay-off in order to increase her husband's pay-off. In fact, there is no altruism in the "battle of the sexes."

Consider the "Battle of the Sexes" Game Presented in Figure