We establish the existence of intrinsic preferences for choice autonomy, defined as a preference for own choice in the absence of any instrumental value of choice, in large general population samples in nine countries using a novel preference elicitation tool.
Social life is governed by a myriad of rules but the behavioral logic of why people follow rules is only incompletely understood. Here, we investigate how rule-following is influenced by peers and social proximity to them.
Many anthropologists and economists contend that humans are characterized by strong, universal, other-regarding equality preferences with deep evolutionary roots.