... to understand how the norms developed to sustain cooperation in society can impact on cooperative behaviour in economic lab experiments, it is first of all interesting to ask how such norms actually affect individual behaviour in general. To some degree, this problem has already been addressed, for example...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Inequality aversion Social discount Time discount Japan Stochastic games Individual behaviour “earned” right to become the dictator (Hoffman et al., 1994); double and single blind procedures (Hoffman et al., 1996...

... for gratification per se may be another motivation for voluntary labour. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Italy Individual behaviour Perception Motivation (psychology) Volunteering Domain satisfactions Correlations Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations Relational goods...

...” by eliminating “cooker.” Ali Ahmed can be contacted at: ali.ahmed@lnu.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Individual behaviour Semantics Consumer behaviour Influence Religion Cooperation Public goods game Experiment Priming One major topic concerning the role...

... elaboration. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Democracy Education Fiji Individual behaviour This paper examines whether schooling and education has a positive impact on an individual's democratic values in Fiji. In a seminal contribution, Dewey (1916) argues that higher...

... (the “idiot‐box,” the television) that found its way into most American homes by the 1950s. Ioannis A. Kaskarelis can be contacted at: ikaskarelis@uth.gr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Money Consumption Individual behaviour Social control The majority of published...

... Altruism Incentives (psychology) Motivation (psychology) Social status Individual behaviour Group behaviour It is an intriguing feature of human behaviour that it is full of seemingly irrational traits. One of these traits, which is particularly interesting from an economic perspective...

... be contacted at: wchang@mail.ntpu.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Social capital Individual behaviour Democracy Taiwan An increasing body of empirical evidence suggests that various forms of social capital are correlated with a wide range of economic outcomes...

..., and Protestants. Religion Individual behaviour Beliefs Does religiosity affect economic behavior? Social scientists have long considered the role of religion to be an important determinant of individual behavior and economic and political phenomena. More than two centuries ago, Smith (1776 [2003...

... at: paulom@eeg.uminho.pt © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Portugal Charitable donations Individual behaviour Local economies Economic cycles For some time, the debate on the determinants of giving has revolved around the relevance of the economic or the social determinants...

... importance for individual welfare. Wealth and income Individual behaviour Personal needs Personal finance Recently, the economics literature has given considerable attention to the issue of what is more important in determining well‐being: a person's real income or that income relative...

...; and 14. the human person is the basic unit of economic decision‐making and economic analysis. Communication Economics Individual behaviour The first and most important strength of personalist economics is that it rests on and offers a different ideological foundation for doing economics...

...). Economist and Philosopher Ludwig Von Mises presents a similar understanding of free will which underlies, at least implicitly much of economic choice theory. Von Mises writes (Von Mises, 1963, p. 13): Free will Individual behaviour Welfare Economic theory A conventional definition...

..., 1973 ; Etzioni, 1988). In the following, it will be discussed how far these criticisms apply for the use of the model in the context of sustainability. Individual behaviour Economics Sustainable development The economy is the essential cultural system to fulfil people's needs...

... choice down one road. Christian explanation leads into an alternative, competing road. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Beliefs Individual behaviour This paper explores a Biblical Christian approach to analysing personal choice, and compares it with that made by Neoclassical economics...

..., …, D_k, …, D_p (p ≥ 1) (3) There exists at least one ethical norm that represents the duty of the decision maker. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Economics Individual behaviour Moral responsibility Moral responsibility emerges in choice situations where the choice...

... trade History Individual behaviour Moral responsibility Values Marx (1954) thought that alienation occurred when powerless workers lost contact with their human selves after being turned into cogs in the factory system; intelligence was drawn from the human being and built into the productive...

... preferences. The formalization is later used as a building block in the description of Hume’s political society. Co‐operation Games Individual behaviour Interaction Motivation Organizational structure Social science embodies a tension regarding the primacy of self‐interest or sympathy...

... for a pluralist and holistic approach to economic inquiry. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Economics Gestalt psychology Individual behaviour Mechanistic systems Philosophy Social sciences Recent developments in the natural sciences, from which much of neoclassical economics used to draw its...

... of the optimal level of transfers when various personality types interact. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Individual behaviour Motivation Personality A frequent criticism of economics from those outside the field is illustrated by the statement of psychologist David McClelland when he argues...