Our new X-phi study of economic”choice” concepts is out!

Our recently published survey-experimental study demonstrates that economists (those with formal economics training) tend to understand the notion of “choice” differently from non-economists in two ways. First, economists tend to think, more consistently than non-economists, that a behavioral change is a choice if it’s a response to shift in incentives. Second, economists tend to think, more consistently than non-economists, that a behavioral change is a choice even if the agent is unaware of own responsiveness to incentives. Why is this important? Read more in our paper published in Economics and Philosophy.