Today we are discussing the research of Bicchieri and Xiao, where they uncover how social norms influence our behavior. We talk about the use of dictator games as part of the experiment as well as American politics, and Matthew McConaughey. 

You can find a link to the research article and our very distilled summary of it on our website HERE.

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Production and editing done by Oona Bezzerides; 

Music by Rafael Krux 

Article: Bicchieri, Cristina and Xiao, Erte, Do the Right Thing: But Only If Others Do So (August 25, 2007). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 22: 191-208.

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