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Foundations of Human Sociality
Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, and Herbert Gintis
472 pages
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numerous line drawings and tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-926204-5
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Hardback
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08 April 2004
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- Unique collaborative effort of eleven anthropologists and six economists, which sets a new benchmark for interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Presents research of far-reaching consequence for all the social sciences.
What motives underlie the ways humans interact socially? Are these the same for all societies? Are these part of our nature, or influenced by our environments? Over the last decade, research in experimental economics has emphatically falsified the textbook representation of Homo economicus. Hundreds of experiments suggest that people care not only about their own material payoffs, but also about such things as fairness, equity, and reciprocity. However, this research left fundamental questions unanswered: Are such social preferences stable components of human nature, or are they modulated by economic, social, and cultural environments? Until
now, experimental research could not address this question because virtually all subjects had been university students. Combining ethnographic and experimental approaches to fill this gap, this book breaks new ground in reporting the results of a large cross-cultural study aimed at determining the sources of social (non-selfish) preferences that underlie the diversity of human sociality. In this study, the same experiments carried out with university students were performed in fifteen small-scale societies exhibiting a wide variety of social, economic, and cultural conditions. The results show that the variation in behaviour is far greater than previously thought, and that the differences between societies in market integration and the importance of cooperation explain a substantial
portion of this variation, which individual-level economic and demographic variables could not. The results also trace the extent to which experimental play mirrors patterns of interaction found in everyday life. The book includes a succinct but substantive introduction to the use of game theory as an analytical tool, and to its use in the social sciences for the rigorous testing of hypotheses about fundamental aspects of social behaviour outside artificially constructed laboratories. The editors also summarize the results of the fifteen case studies in a suggestive chapter about the scope of the project.Readership: Academics, researchers, and graduate students in Economics, Anthropology, and Psychology.
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Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, and Herbert Gintis Contributors:
Joseph Henrich, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
Robert Boyd, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Samuel Bowles, University of Siena and University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Colin Camerer, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Ernst Fehr, Insitute for Empirical Research, University of Zürich
Herbert Gintis, Santa Fe Institute, University of
Massachusetts, and New York University
Richard McElreath, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
John Q. Patton, Washington State University
Natalie Smith, School of Public Health, Harvard University
Frank Marlowe, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Michael Gurven, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
David P. Tracer, Department of Anthropology, University of Colarado at Denver
Francisco J. Gil-White, Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania
Abigail Barr, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
Jean Ensminger, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California
Institute of Technology
Kim Hill, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Mike Gurven, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Michael S. Alvard, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University
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1: Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, and Herbert Gintis: Introduction and Guide to the Volume
2: Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, and Richard McElreath: Overview and Synthesis
3: Colin Camerer and Ernst Fehr`: Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Sciences
4: John Q. Patton: Coalitional Effects on Reciprocal Fairness in the Ultimatum Game: A Case from the Ecuadorian Amazon
5: Joseph Henrich and Natalie Smith: Comparative Experimental Evidence from Machiguenga, Mapuche, Huinca, and American Populations Shows Substantial Variation Among Social Groups in Bargaining and Public Goods Behavior
6: Frank Marlowe: Dictators and Ultimatums in an Egalitarian Society of Hunter-Gatherers - the Hadza of Tanzania
7: Michael Gurven: Does Market Exposure Affect Economic Game Behavior? The Ultimatum Game and the Public Goods Game Among the Tsimane of Bolivia
8: David Tracer: Market Integration, Reciprocity, and Fairness in Rural Papua New Guinea: Results from a Two-Village Ultimatum Game Experiment
9: Francisco J. Gil-White: Ultimatum Game with an Ethnicity Manipulation: Results from Khovdiin Bulgan Sum, Mongolia
10: Avigail Barr: Kinship, Familiarity, and Trust: An Experimental Investigation
11: Richard McElreath: Community Structure, Mobility, and the Strength of Norms in an Africa Society: the Sangu of Tanzania
12: Jean Ensminger: Market Integration and Fairness: Evidence from Ultimatum, Dictator, and Public Goods Experiments in East Africa
13: Kim Hill and Mike Gurven: Economic Experiments to Examine Fairness and Cooperation among the Ache Indians of Paraguay
14: Michael Alvard: The Ultimatum Game, Fairness, and Cooperation among Big Game Hunters
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