(Over-)Stylizing Experimental Findings and Theorizing with Sweeping Generality

Werner Gueth (), Hartmut Kliemt and Maria Levati
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Werner Gueth: Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
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Rationality, Markets and Morals, 2009, vol. 0, issue 16

Abstract: Human decision making is a process guided by different and partly competing motivations that can each dominate behavior and lead to different effects depending on strength and circumstances. 'Over-stylizing' neglects such competing concerns and context-dependence, although it facilitates the emergence of elaborate general theories. We illustrate by examples from social dilemma experiments and inequality aversion theories that sweeping empirical claims should be avoided.

Keywords: decision theory; social dilemmas; inequality aversion; behavioral economics; experimental economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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