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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. Literally 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, And While There Are Cultural Differences Among Student Populations Throughout The World, These Differences Are Small Compared To The Full Range Of Human Social And Cultural Environments.^ A Vast Amount Of Ethnographic And Historical Research Suggests That People's Motives Are Influenced By Economic, Social, And Cultural Environments, Yet Such Methods Can Only Yield Circumstantial Evidence About Human Motives. Combinin

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Author

Henrich, Joseph(Editor)

Publisher

Array

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191532214

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Economics, Sociology

Rating

4.07 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13