We employ experiments to illustrate one factor contributing to the lack of distrust in the recent corporate scandals …

foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is … potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non …-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples …

phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self …-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically … experiments with student samples misrepresent the importance of social preferences. Our first study shows that students who …

Laboratory experiments are an important methodology in economics, especially in the field of behavioral economics …. However, it is still debated to what extent results from laboratory experiments can be applied to field settings. One highly … important question with respect to the external validity of experiments is whether individuals act the same in experiments as …