Increasing signs seem to indicate that, in the areas of both politics and thought, the age of neoliberal supremacy is approaching its end. An ideology based exclusively on the free play of the market is bound, ultimately, to lose its attraction. Growing inequality and social exclusion, with new...

This thesis consists of three chapters. Each of these chapters examines the effect of non-monetary factors, such as an individual's psychological closeness to a co-partner, the gender of an opponent, and the ethnicity of a potential mate, on the individual decision-making. The first chapter...