Christian Thöni

Social Learning, Comparison, and Interaction: an Experimental Approach Christian Thöni

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.