Spoiled for choice: Identifying the building blocks of folk-economic beliefs

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41 (2018)
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Boyer & Petersen suggest that folk-economic beliefs result from evolved domain-specific cognitive systems concerned with social exchange. However, a major challenge for their account is that each folk-economic belief can be explained by different combinations of evolved cognitive systems. We illustrate this by offering alternative explanations for several economic beliefs they discuss.

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Ori Friedman
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