Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists

Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Camerer, Colin F ^a   Fehr, Ernst ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Altruism; Behavioural regularities; Cross cultural behaviour; Cross cultural study; Dictator game; Experimental economics; Game theory; Gift exchange game; Inequity aversion; Prisoner's dilemma game; Public goods game; Reciprocity; Self interest; Social norms; Social preferences; Third Party punishment game; Trust game; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920491774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199262055.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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