The Importance of Fairness in Anonymous Transactions

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Asata: I think that marriage practices of a society actually have a big effect on male psychology in terms of testosterone. In polygynous societies, and most 85% of human societies have been polygynous, you're still on the mating market after you get married. We test married men's testosterone levels to see if they're actually still considering themselves on the market. Now you can get a bit more creative about how you might expect this mechanism to work across societies where you have a completely different environment culture. But it's that first part of establishing a psychological phenomenon that we can start there, and then build the case. It's just so it progresses a bit more slowly than we might

Joe Henrich joins the podcast to tell us that we know nothing about his work and that how we got to teach a class in anything is absolutely amazing. We continue our discussion from Episode 17 about his critique of the social and behavioral sciences in "The Weirdest People in the World" and his work in small scale societies on fairness norms. We also talk about the weird American obsession with happiness, monkeys throwing cucumbers, and why some people reject "hyper-fair" offers of more than the half the pot in the ultimatum games.

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