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Making it real: Interpreting economic experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2005

Eric Alden Smith
Eric Alden Smith*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA98195-3100http://faculty.washington.edu/easmith/
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easmith@u.washington.edu
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Abstract

The relationship between game play and naturalistic cooperation, generosity, or market involvement is ambiguous at best, making it difficult to link game results to preferences and beliefs guiding decision-making in daily life. Discounting reputation-based explanations because the games are anonymous, while arguing that game play is guided by motivational structures or framing effects reflecting daily life, is inconsistent.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , December 2005 , pp. 832 - 833
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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