An influential line of thinking in behavioral science, to which the two authors have long
subscribed, is that many of society's most pressing problems can be addressed cheaply and …

The behavioral sciences have flourished by studying how traditional and/or rational
behavior has been governed throughout most of human history by relatively well-informed …

The domain of “folk-economics” consists in explicit beliefs about the economy held by
laypeople, untrained in economics, about such topics as, for example, the causes of the …

Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

Mainstream social psychology focuses on how people characteristically violate norms of
action through social misbehaviors such as conformity with false majority judgments …

Richard E. Nisbett & Lee Ross, Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social
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This target article is concerned with the implications of the surprisingly different experimental
practices in economics and in areas of psychology relevant to both economists and …

Since the Industrial Revolution, human societies have experienced high and sustained rates
of economic growth. Recent explanations of this sudden and massive change in economic …

This paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of science's most pervasive and
flexible metaprinciples; optimality is used to explain utility maximization in economics, least …

Ultrasociality refers to the social organization of a few species, including humans and some
social insects, having a complex division of labor, city-states, and an almost exclusive …