Social Learning, Comparison, and Interaction

Individuals influence each other's behavior in many ways. Previous research in economics focused predominantly on constraint, expectations, and preference interactions. However, many interdependencies of individual behavior are not easily put into one of these categories. This book presents a series of experiments designed to identify channels of interdependencies, namely social learning, social comparison and social interaction. The observed interaction effects are related to recent theoretical approaches to social preferences.

Autorentext

Christian Thöni is Assistant Professor at the University of St. Gallen. He studied economics at the University of Zürich and made his doctorate at the University of St. Gallen. His research focuses on Game Theory and Behavioral Economics and connects theoretical approaches with experimental data.

Klappentext

Individuals influence each other's behavior in many ways. Previous research in economics focused predominantly on constraint, expectations, and preference interactions. However, many interdependencies of individual behavior are not easily put into one of these categories. This book presents a series of experiments designed to identify channels of interdependencies, namely social learning, social comparison and social interaction. The observed interaction effects are related to recent theoretical approaches to social preferences.