Departures from self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of “social preferencesâ€. We design a range of simple experimental games that test these theories more directly than existing experiments. Our experiments show that subjects are more concerned with...

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...