On the External Validity of Social Preference Games: A Systematic Lab-Field Study

We present a lab-field experiment designed to assess systematically the external validity of social preferences elicited in a variety of experimental games. We do this by comparing behavior in the different games with a number of behaviors elicited in the field and with self-reported behaviors exhibited in the past, using the same sample of participants. Our results show that the experimental social-preference games do a poor job in explaining both social behaviors in the field and social behaviors from the past.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Management Sciences

• Publication date

  2018-02-13

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Economics, Political Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1287/mnsc.2017.2908
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