Combining evolutionary models with behavioral experiments can generate powerful insights
into the evolution of human behavior. The emergence of online labor markets such as …

The anthropological record indicates that approximately 85 per cent of human societies
have permitted men to have more than one wife (polygynous marriage), and both empirical …

What was a Buddhist monk doing at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos lecturing the
world's leaders on mindfulness? Why do many successful corporations have a'chief …

Economists and psychologists have developed a variety of experimental methodologies to
elicit and assess individual risk attitudes. Choosing which to utilize, however, is largely …

Psychological and socio-psychological factors are now more commonly discussed as
possible explanations for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We first describe the …

Household finance—the normative and positive study of how households use financial
markets to achieve their objectives—has gained a lot of attention over the past decade and …

Conspicuous consumption is a form of economic behavior in which self-presentational
concerns override desires to obtain goods at bargain prices. Showy spending may be a …

We present an evolutionary perspective on charismatic leadership, arguing that charisma
has evolved as a credible signal of a person's ability to solve a coordination challenge …

Sexual and asexual reproduction are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms.
Asexual reproduction has its advantages, chief among which is that it does not require the …

Women are generally more risk averse than men. We investigated whether between-and
within-gender variation in financial risk aversion was accounted for by variation in salivary …