Monday, November 12, 2012

The Grammar of Society (Bicchieri 2006): Norms Matter p113

To infer another person's intention or motive, we consider not only the action chosen, but also the actions that were not chosen but, as far as we know,could have been chosen.

A deviation from equal sharing will be mainly due to:
(a) the presence of appropriate and acceptable justifications for taking more than an equal share
(b) the shift to a very different script that involves different roles and expectations.

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