The social side of Homo economicus

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-3

  Rankin, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COOPERATION; ECONOMICS; EVOLUTION; GAME; HUMAN; NOTE;

ALTRUISM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS;

EID: 78650303634     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.10.005     Document Type: Note

References (17)

1. Fehr E., Fischbacher U. The nature of human altruism. Nature 2003, 425:785-791.
2. West, S.A. et al. 16 common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans. Evol. Human Behav. (in press).
3. West S.A., et al. Social semantics: altruism, cooperation, mutualism, strong reciprocity and group selection. J. Evol. Biol. 2007, 20:415-432.
4. Levitt S.D., List J.A. Homo economicus evolves. Science 2008, 319:909-910.
5. Kummerli R., et al. Resistance to extreme strategies, rather than prosocial preferences, can explain human cooperation in public goods games. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2010, 107:10125-10130.
6. Levitt S.D., List J.A. What do laboratory experiments measuring social preferences reveal about the real world?. J. Econ. Perspect. 2007, 21:153-174.
7. Binmore K., Shaked A. Experimental economics: where next?. J. Econ. Behav. Organ. 2010, 73:87-100.
8. Fehr E., Fischbacher U. Social norms and human cooperation. Trends Cogn. Sci. 2004, 8:185-190.
9. Gintis H., et al. Explaining altruistic behavior in humans. Evol. Human Behav. 2003, 24:153-172.
10. Gintis H., et al. Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life 2005, MIT Press.
11. Henrich J., et al. 'Economic man' in cross-cultural perspective: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies. Behav. Brain Sci. 2005, 28:795-855.
12. Ledyard J.O. The Handbook of Experimental Economics 1995, Princeton Univ Press, Princeton. J.H. Kagel, A.E. Roth (Eds.).
13. Aumann R.J. Rationality and bounded rationality. Games Econ. Behav. 1997, 21:2-14.
14. List J.A. The behavioralist meets the market: measuring social preferences and reputation effects in actual transactions. J. Polit. Econ. 2006, 114:1-37.
15. Wedekind C., Milinski M. Cooperation through image scoring in humans. Science 2000, 288:850-852.
16. Bateson M., et al. Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting. Biol. Lett. 2006, 2:412-414.
17. Bardsley N. Dictator game giving: altruism or artefact?. Exp. Econ. 2007, 11:122-133.