A test of the experimental method in the spirit of Popper

Hargreaves-Heap, Shaun, Verschoor, Arjan and Zizzo, Daniel John (2012) A test of the experimental method in the spirit of Popper. Journal of Economic Methodology, 19 (1). pp. 63-76. ISSN 1350-178X

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Abstract

Do the insights into human behavior generated by laboratory experiments hold outside the lab? This is a crucial question that naturally troubles both experimentalists and their critics. We address this question by adopting Popper’s injunction that hypotheses should be tested, not by seeking instances of confirmation, but through exposure to conditions where falsification is a serious possibility. We test the hypothesis ‘that experimental insights hold outside the lab’ by selecting a population where the non-experimental evidence points to behavior that is quite unlike what is typically found in the laboratory and we examine whether their experimental results track these untypical behaviors. In our case, they do.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Impact Evaluation Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics
Depositing User:	Daniel Zizzo
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2012 13:36
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2023 00:44
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/39660
DOI:	10.1080/1350178X.2012.661068

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