We ran experiments with a stag hunt and bargaining coordination game. Using a between-subjects design, we varied the identity of the opponent between someone of the same culture or a different culture. The idea was to see whether cultural norms or identity played a part in coordination...

In Experimental Economics, coordination games are used to elicit social norms as incentivized beliefs about others' beliefs. Conversely, representative surveys like the World Values Survey elicit social norms as personal attitudes and values that are independent of others' beliefs. Using a...

Contemporary legal scholars have become keenly interested in behavioral approaches to law that recognize that real people do not always behave in a rationally selfish fashion. For example, numerous recent papers examine how human choice can be distorted by endowment effects, anchoring effects,...