(Over)-stylizing experimental findings and theorizing with sweeping generality

Werner Güth; Hartmut Kliemt; M. Vittoria Levati

Human decision making is a process guided by different and partly competing mo-tivations that can each dominate behavior and lead to different effects depending on strength and circumstances. "Over-stylizingʺ neglects such competing concerns and context-dependence, although it facilitates the emergence of elaborate general theories. We illustrate by examples from social dilemma experiments and inequality aversion theories that sweeping empirical claims should be avoided. -- Context-dependent preferences ; experimental economics ; equity theo-ries

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Güth, Werner ; Kliemt, Hartmut ; Levati, Maria Vittoria
Publisher:	Jena : Univ. [u.a.]
Subject:	Verhaltensökonomik \| Behavioral economics \| Präferenztheorie \| Theory of preferences \| Gefangenendilemma \| Prisoner's dilemma \| Gerechtigkeit \| Justice \| Experiment