contrafreeloading

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When I described contrafreeloading to one of my rational economist friends (yes, I still have some of these), he immediately explained to me how Jensen's results do not, in fact, contradict standard economic reasoning.

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And though I felt that it is possible to generalize about the way we relate to work from those animal studies, it was also clear to me that some experiments on adult human contrafreeloading were in the cards.

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Do humans, in general, exhibit contrafreeloading, or are they more rational?

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The general idea of contrafreeloading contradicts the simple economic view that organisms will always choose to maximize their reward while minimizing their effort (the only commendably rational animal seems to be the cat).

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"Anyway," he continued, "I am sure that if you were to repeat Jensen's experiment with normal people, you would not find this contrafreeloading effect.

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