When Does "Economic Man" Dominate Social Behavior?

By Colin F. Camerer, Ernst Fehr. Science, 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Interpersonal emotion regulation. (2013, background): “Similarly, individuals encountering someone else’s emotions often respond prosocially, but the psychological sources of such behavior have remained the topic of an old and vociferous debate (Andreoni, 1990; Batson, 1991; Camerer & Fehr, 2006; R. B. Cialdini et al., 1997; de Waal, 2008).”
Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting (2006, background): “…interactions are explicitly anonymous and not repeated, some scholars have argued that humans are not always maximizers of individual self-interest (Camerer & Fehr 2006), but instead have been shaped to be pro-social or other-regarding by a history of group selection (Gintis 2000; Gintis et al.…”
Rationality on the rise: Why relative risk aversion increases with stake size (2010, background): “As the literature on individual irrationality and aggregate outcomes has shown (Haltiwanger and Waldman 1985, 1989 ;F ehr and Tyran2005, 2008; Camerer and Fehr 2006 ), the mix of behavioral types may be crucial for the market outcome and, depending on the nature of the strategic interdependence, th”
Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission (2017, background): “Prosocial preferences such as trust, other-regarding preferences, and interpersonal skills are correlated with better economic outcomes at the individual and social levels, see, e.g., Camerer and Fehr (2006).”
Neural correlates of mentalizing-related computations during strategic interactions in humans (2008, background): “More generally, the present results show how the application of quantitative computational models to neuroimaging and behavioral data can be used not only to advance knowledge of simple learning situations but also to unlock the complexities of social and strategic interactions (32, 33).”
Risk and Rationality: Uncovering Heterogeneity in Probability Distortion (2009, background): “As the literature on the role of bounded rationality under strategic complementarity and substitutability shows, the mix of rational and irrational actors may be decisive for aggregate outcomes (Haltiwanger and Waldman, 1985, 1989; Fehr and Tyran, 2005; Camerer and Fehr, 2006; Fehr and Tyran, 2008).”
Fast and frugal heuristics: Tools of social rationality. (2009, neutral): “Some researchers have interpreted the pervasiveness of egalitarian outcomes in this game as a sign that people value and enforce a norm of fairness (e.g., Güth & Tietz, 1990; and see Camerer & Fehr, 2006; and see Binmore's, 2005, critique of the established interpretation of the ultimatum game).”
Children's altruistic behavior in the dictator game (2007, background): “The proportion of individuals within an environment pursuing a particular strategy also influences responses (Axelrod, 1984; Camerer & Fehr, 2006).”