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Spoiled for choice: Identifying the building blocks of folk-economic beliefs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2018

Shaylene Nancekivell  and
Ori Friedman
Shaylene Nancekivell
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043. snancek@umich.edu
Ori Friedman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 2V9, Canada. friedman@uwaterloo.cahttps://uwaterloo.ca/psychology/people-profiles/ori-friedman
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Abstract

Boyer & Petersen suggest that folk-economic beliefs result from evolved domain-specific cognitive systems concerned with social exchange. However, a major challenge for their account is that each folk-economic belief can be explained by different combinations of evolved cognitive systems. We illustrate this by offering alternative explanations for several economic beliefs they discuss.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e183
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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