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Social Preferences in Experimental Economics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

James Woodward
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Abstract

This article explores some issues having to do with the use of experimental results from one-shot games to reach conclusions about the existence of social preferences that are taken to figure in the explanation of cooperation in repeated interactions in real life.

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Philosophical Issues in Experimental Economics
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 75 , Issue 5: Proceedings of the 2006 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. Part II: Symposia Papers. Edited by Cristina Bicchieri and Jason Alexander , December 2008 , pp. 646 - 657
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Footnotes

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Thanks to Ken Binmore, Francesco Guala, and Talbot Page for helpful discussions.

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