Ken Binmore and Avner Shaked are highly respected economists, well-known for their analytical contributions and breadth of knowledge. Moreover, they have actively participated in experimental economics for many years. However, their critique of the current state of experimental economics in general, and of Ernst Fehr and Klaus Schmidt’s presentation of their theory of inequality aversion in par...

BACKGROUND Forming one's identity is thought to be the key developmental task of adolescence, but profound changes in personality traits also occur in this period. The negotiation of complex social settings, the creation of an integrated identity, and career choice are major tasks of adolescence. The adolescent, having to make choices for his or her future, has not only to consider his or her o...

Economists are increasingly using primes that make group identity salient to overcome the inferential limitations of behavioral quasi-experiments involving pre-existing groups (e.g., males vs. females). However, while priming group identity provides powerful means for identifying a causal effect of group membership on individuals’ preferences, so far, there has been little methodological reflec...

the present study is aimed at assessing the state of national identity among female students of ahwaz islamic azad university and explores the social factors affecting upon it. the statistical society consisted of 8532 students at the three levels of associate diploma undergraduate and master degrees. the research method in this study is a “survey” and collection of data has been carried out by...

Introduction: Identity is formed through our understanding ofourselves and what others perceive of our actions and how we dothings. Formation of professional identity includes development,advancement and socialization through social learning of specificknowledge and skills obtained within the context of professionalroles, new attitudes and values.Methods: This qualitative study used content ana...

People tend to believe what they want to believe. In this paper, I examine how people interpret others’ behavior to form beliefs about others’ preferences. I develop a “selective beliefs” model of social preferences in which people have intrinsic preferences over outcomes and also hold prior beliefs about the preferences of others. I propose that people attempt to selectively perceive and inter...

There is a general presumption that social preferences can be ignored if markets are competitive. Market experiments (Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if they were purely selfinterested. We qualify this view. Social preferences are irrelevant if and only if two conditions are met: separability of preferences ...