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Are experimental economists behaviorists and is behaviorism for the birds?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Robert Kurzban
Robert Kurzban
Affiliation:
Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 rkurzban@hotmail.com
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Abstract

Methods in experimental economics are reminiscent of the methods employed by behaviorists in the first half of the twentieth century. Empirical and conceptual progress led the field of psychology away from the principles of behaviorism, and experimental economists should consider whether the criticisms leveled against behaviorists might apply equally to them.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 420 - 421
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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