Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists
FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN SOCIALITY - EXPERIMENTAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FROM 15 SMALL-SCALE SOCIETIES, Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, Richard McElreath, eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Posted: 10 Jun 2002
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Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists
Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists
Abstract
Experimental games turned out to be remarkably productive tools for examining the nature of social preferences and social norms. This paper describes the methods and tools of experimental game theory and provides a selection of games that have been useful. We also discuss the role of evolutionary explanations and of social preference theory in organizing the data in a coherent way.
JEL Classification: C91, M40, M46
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