In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies

By Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin F. Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, Richard McElreath. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Reward, punishment, and cooperation: a meta-analysis. (2011, background): “Building on earlier advances (Henrich et al., 2001), recent research has started to examine how features of the situation vary in their impact on cooperation across different cultures (e.g., Herrmann et al., 2008).”
Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “…cultural traits also produce and sustain the social organization of these groups and societies; both are the product of ongoing cultural evolution (Richerson and Boyd 1999, Henrich et al. 2001, Hodgson 2002, Hill et al. 2009, Kaplan et al. 2009, Smith et al. 2010a, Boyd et al. 2011, Sterelny 2011).”
Which Is the Fairest One of All? A Positive Analysis of Justice Theories (2003, background): “In a subsequent paper that expands this experiment to 15 small-scale societies, Henrich et al. (2001) find that offers vary widely but the mean offers of the Machiguenga remain the lowest of any society studied.”
Economic Theory and Experimental Economics (2005, neutral): “and McElreath [115] finds significant behavioral variation.”
Social value orientations and the strategic use of fairness in ultimatum bargaining (2004, background): “Henrich et al., 2001 ), allocators appear to make lower offers.”
Violent conflict and behavior: A field experiment in Burundi (2012, background): “While the literature commonly interprets experimental play as reflecting underlying preferences (e.g., Henrich et al. 2001; Tanaka, Camerer, and Nguyen 2010), behavior and preferences are not identical concepts.”
Bargaining by Children (2003, background): “Only 7% of kids make a 2 Table A.II in the appendix shows the results of Mann-Whitney and Epps-Singleton tests of differences in these proposals across grades.”
Evolutionary dynamics of higher-order interactions in social networks (2020, background): “Given this puzzle, the search for reasons and mechanisms that may allow cooperation to evolve and proliferate is an evergreen and vibrant subject across the social and natural sciences [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10].”
Trust, welfare states and income equality: Sorting out the causality (2014, background): “Henrich et al. (2001) also show that people from very different cultures, with few exceptions, tend to choose equal distributions in trust and public goods experiments.”