Adult participants were asked to accept or reject third-party distributions that were fair or unfair in ways that created advantageous or disadvantageous inequities while their manual responses were tracked. Reach tracking measures how participants resolve conflict between alternate options and the timing of that resolution. Participants were less likely to accept disadvantageous inequities than fair distributions or advantageous inequities. Participants showed greater deviance in their curvature towards the alternative option when they rejected the distribution than when they accepted it. However, they resolved their deviance towards the alternate option faster when they rejected a distribution. This suggests a new way of considering the role of inhibitory control in economic decision making: Participants more quickly detect conflict when rejecting distributions, but the act of costing oneself resources requires more inhibitory processes related to conflict resolution.