We provide empirical evidence to support the claims that social diversity promotes prosocial behavior. We elicit a real-life social network and its members٠adherence to a social norm, namely inequity aversion. The data reveal a positive relationship between subjects٠prosociality and several...

Also published as Working Paper DFAEII 2009-05 and as an article in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, vol. 69, issue 2, pages 249-257.

The scope of the paper is the literature that employs coordination games to study social norms and conventions from the viewpoint of game theory and cognitive psychology. We claim that those two alternative approaches are complementary, as they provide different insights to explain how people...

Also published as Working Paper DFAEII 2009-05 and as an article in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, vol. 69, issue 2, pages 249-257.