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Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists

Year: 2004

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Experimental games turned out to be remarkably productive tools for examining the nature of social preferences and social norms. This paper describes the methods and tools of experimental game theory and provides a selection of games that have been useful. We also discuss the role of evolutionary explanations of and social preference theory in organizing the data in a coherent way.

Source: Oxford University Press eBooks

DOI: 10.1093/0199262055.003.0003

Authors: Colin F. Camerer, Ernst Fehr

Institutions: California Institute of Technology, University of Zurich

Language: English

Topic: Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Awards: Collaborative Research: On Experience-Weighted Attraction Learning in Games, Collaborative Research: Sophisticated Learning and Strategic Teaching in Repeated Games