LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSIOLOGY

The Laboratory of Physiology

Laboratory Experiments in Political Economy

The financial support of the National Science Foundation and the Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University are gratefully acknowledged. I wish to thank many coauthors for sharing their insights about political economy experiments. I am especially indebted to Richard McKelvey. The editors provided helpful comments on an earlier draft.

Gift Ratios in Laboratory Experiments

This paper presents statistics of a controlled laboratory gift-exchangegame experiment. These numbers can be used for assumptions about human behavior in analysis of noisy web data. The experiment was described in ‘The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity’ by Gächter et al. 2012. As already shown in relevant literature from experimental economics, human decisions deviate from rational pa...

Internal Waves in Laboratory Experiments

Recent laboratory methods developed to generate and to analyze internal waves have revealed important insights that sometimes guide and sometimes challenge theoretical predictions and the results of numerical simulations. Here we focus upon observations of internal waves generated by oscillatory or uniform flow over a solid boundary in a continuously stratified fluid. In the laboratory such flo...

Laboratory Experiments in Political Science

Until the middle of the twentieth century, the discipline of political science was primarily qualitative – philosophical, descriptive, legalistic, and typically reliant on case studies that failed to probe causation in any measurable way. The word " science " was not entirely apt. In the 1950s, the discipline was transformed by the behavioral revolution, spearheaded by advocates of a more socia...