%0 Journal Article
%T (Over-)Stylizing Experimental Findings and Theorizing with Sweeping Generality
%A Werner Gueth
%A Hartmut Kliemt
%A M. Vittoria Levati
%J Rationality, Markets and Morals
%D 2009
%I Frankfurt School Verlag
%X Human decision making is a process guided by different and partly competing motivations that can each dominate behavior and lead to different effects depending on strength and circumstances. 'Over-stylizing' neglects such competing concerns and context-dependence, although it facilitates the emergence of elaborate general theories. We illustrate by examples from social dilemma experiments and inequality aversion theories that sweeping empirical claims should be avoided.
%K decision theory
%K social dilemmas
%K inequality aversion
%K behavioral economics
%K experimental economics
%U http://www.rmm-journal.de/downloads/017_gueth_kliemt_levati.pdf