A large literature shares the view that social norms shape human cooperation, but without a
clean empirical identification of the relevant norms almost every behaviour can be …

I survey the literature post Ledyard (Handbook of Experimental Economics, ed. by J. Kagel,
A. Roth, Chap. 2, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1995) on three related issues in …

The concept of generations has become increasingly important in the social science fields to
explain diverse phenomena affecting organizations. This is especially true in the family …

Research into social learning (learning from others) has expanded significantly in recent
years, not least because of productive interactions between theoretical and empirical …

Understanding the proximate and ultimate sources of human cooperation is a fundamental
issue in all behavioural sciences. In this paper, we review the experimental evidence on …

This chapter surveys the contributions of laboratory experiments to labor economics. We
begin with a discussion of methodological issues: when (and why) is a lab experiment the …

People to be born in the future have no direct influence on current affairs. Given the
disconnect between people who are currently living and those who will inherit the planet left …

When an individual believes that peers are predominantly untruthful in a given situation, is
he/she more likely to be untruthful in that situation? We study this question in deception …

We use experiments to investigate the use of advice as a coordinating device in the
'Minimum Effort Game'which is a coordination game with weak strategic complementarities …

The paper examines the control of power, using an account of the public good developed
from Aristotle. It identifies three different perspectives on the relationship between …