Departures from pure self interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of "social preferences". We … conduct experiments on simple two-person and three-person games with binary choices that test these theories more directly … than the array of games conventionally considered. Our experiments show strong support for the prevalence of "quasi …

This survey explores the contributions of behavioral economics, laboratory experiments, and field experiments to our …, altruism, inequality aversion, and guilt aversion) from pledges of trust and from reciprocal behavior provides a foundation for … of theory and experiments that have identified trust and reciprocity in economics and human behavior. …

with inequality, in contrast with existing models of both risk sharing and social preferences. …

In this paper, we describe a series of laboratory experiments that implement specific examples of a more general …