This target article is concerned with the implications of the surprisingly different experimental
practices in economics and in areas of psychology relevant to both economists and …

114 FACTORS INFLUENCING COOPERATION IN COMMONS DILEMMAS of the choices
made by others;(2) a noncooperative choice is always harmful to others compared to a …

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how
emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people …

We present simple one-shot distribution experiments comparing the relative importance of
efficiency concerns, maximin preferences, and inequality aversion, as well as the relative …

When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life,(reason's) conclusions
seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and'tis …

We present a lab-field experiment designed to systematically assess the external validity of
social preferences elicited in a variety of experimental games. We do this by comparing …

What motivates people to trust and be trustworthy? Is trust solely “calculative,” based on the
expectation of trustworthiness, and trustworthiness only reciprocity? Employing a within …

Trust and trustworthiness form the basis for continued social and economic interactions, and
they are also fundamental for cooperation, fairness, honesty, and indeed for many other …

This paper analyzes the behavior of subjects randomly drawn from the Dutch population
who reveal their capacity to provide and sustain social capital by their propensity to invest …

This paper contributes to the ongoing methodological debate on context-free versus in-
context presentation of experimental tasks. We report an experiment using the paradigm of a …