• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Psychology and Experimental Economics: A Gap in Abstraction
  • Beteiligte: Ariely, Dan; Norton, Michael I.
  • Erschienen: Blackwell Publishers, 2007
  • Erschienen in: Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0963-7214
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  • Beschreibung: <p>Experimental economics and social psychology share an interest in a widening subset of topics, relying on similar lab-based methods to address similar questions about human behavior, yet dialogue between the two fields remains in its infancy. We propose a framework for understanding this disconnect: The different approaches the disciplines take to translating real-world behavior into the laboratory create a "gap in abstraction," which contributes to crucial differences in philosophy about the roles of deception and incentives in experiments and limits cross-pollination. We review two areas of common interest--altruism and group-based discrimination--which demonstrate this gap yet also reveal ways in which the two approaches might be seen as complementary rather than contradictory.</p>