Experimental economics has grown and developed exponentially in the past fifty years. Although the methodologies are different, many of its findings complement those of social psychology. This chapter discusses the contrasting methods and identifies a few related findings in the two fields.

Patrik Andlin-Sobocki, Bengt Jönsson, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen and Jes Olesen Stockholm Health Economics, Stockholm, Sweden and Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Center for Health Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden; Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden,...

Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links between the fields have been sparse. Whereas modern leadership scholars mostly focus on transformational and related leadership styles, economists have mainly emphasized the role of contracts, control rights, and incentives. We argue that both fields could profit from enriching...

Gábor Stefanics*, Piia Astikainen and István Czigler 1 Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich and ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland 2 Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 3 Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland 4 Research Center for...

Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) was one of the earliest professional economists at the University of Cambridge in the nineteenth century, and a founder of the Cambridge School of economics which nurtured leading economists such as A. C. Pigou and J. M. Keynes. However, in his early research, before becoming a professional economist, Marshall explored what psychology had to say about the human facul...