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I accepted for decades that having people play economic payoff matrix games in laboratories with strangers was an accurate way to measure abstract personal traits like generosity, risk aversion, trust, prosociality, etc.
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But maybe it’s an even weirder idea to think that those abstract nouns even ARE pervasive, persistent traits, as opposed to a mess of contexts and contradictions
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yes but when researchers find that e.g. their teenage male subjects YOLO more in public goods games I don’t know if that makes them more generous or just more bored
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