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Understanding the development of folk-economic beliefs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2018

Zoe Liberman  and
Katherine D. Kinzler
Zoe Liberman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-9660. zoe.liberman@psych.ucsb.edulabs.psych.ucsb.edu/liberman/zoe
Katherine D. Kinzler
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853-7601. kinzler@cornell.edudsclabcornell.com
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Abstract

Developmental psychology can shed light on (1) the intuitive systems that underlie folk-economic beliefs (FEBs), and (2) how FEBs are created and revised. Boyer & Petersen (B&P) acknowledge the first, but we argue that they do not seriously consider the second. FEBs vary across people (and within a person), and much of this variation may be explained by socialization, social context, and social learning.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e177
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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