“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

By Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin F. Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, R. Mcelreath, M. Alvard, A. Barr, Jean Ensminger and 7 more. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2005

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Currency value moderates equity preference among young children (2010, positive): “Some researchers (Henrich et al., 2005) point to research on imitative altruism (e.g., Bryan, 1971; Elliot & Vasta, 1970; Presbie & Coiteux, 1971) to argue that children model their altruistic behavior on adult behavior in their cultures.”
The Promise and Success of Lab-Field Generalizability in Experimental Economics: A Critical Reply to Levitt and List (2011, background): “However, variables associated with sharing norms could be measured to interpret different behavioral patterns (and correlated with ultimatum offers; see Henrich et al. [2006]).”
Re-engaging with rationality in economic geography: behavioural approaches and the importance of context in decision-making (2007, background): “In economics this model of behaviour is embodied in the selfishness axiom, which is the assumption that individuals seek to maximise their own material gains and expect others to behave in the same way (Henrich et al., 2005).”
Why Simulation Games Work-In Search of the Active Substance: A Synthesis (2010, background): “A very convincing demonstration of how a simple simulation game reproduces the unwritten social rules of the participants in a game run is presented by Henrich et al. (2005). In an impressive concerted research effort, these authors played the Ultimatum game with ordinary people in 15 small-scale so”
Normology: Integrating insights about social norms to understand cultural dynamics (2015, background): “Because norms are conceptualized as context-specific regulators of behavior rather than as traits, they may offer more potential to understand how cultural patterns vary across situations and contexts both for individuals (Bagozzi, Wong, Abe, & Bergami, 2000; Henrich et al., 2005) and for teams (Gel”
Using the methods of experimental social psychology to study cultural evolution. (2007, background): “People from traditional small-scale societies might also be used, in a manner similar to recent cross-cultural economic experiments (Henrich et al., 2005).”
Children's altruistic behavior in the dictator game (2007, background): “Parents who cannot afford their own homes likely participate less in wage labor and other anonymous delayed exchanges and, therefore, likely socialize their children differently than parents of children who participate in the labor market (Barry et al., 1959; Henrich et al., 2005; Kohn, 1990).”
Dictator games: a meta study (2011, neutral): “Anthropologists have frequently used the dictator game as a technology for quantifying the sociability of developing or indigenous cultures (the classic study is Henrich and Boyd 2005 ).”
Charity begins at home: cultural differences in social discounting and generosity (2014, background): “Although research on the impact of culture on social discounting is scarce, there is reason to believe that this could also be an important moderating variable in the context of social-distance-dependent pro-social behavior (Henrich et al., 2005).”
The neuroscience of social decision-making. (2011, positive): “However, once again, this game theoretic prediction is at odds with observed behavior across a wide range of societies (Henrich et al. 2005), with both fair offers and rejections of unfair offers often observed.”
The Development of Fairness Expectations and Prosocial Behavior in the Second Year of Life (2013, background): “…regarding how resources should be distributed are, at least to a certain degree, shaped by culture and socialization: research has documented considerable cross-cultural variability regarding the extent to which individuals distribute resources equally in economic games (Henrich et al., 2005).”