Rationality in Social Science: Foundations, Norms, and Prosociality

Rationality in Social Science: Introduction.- From Pascal to Ellsberg: Paradoxes of Rationality Stimulate the Progress of Decision Theory.- Rationology, Rationality and Reason.- "Das Modell ist daf nicht geeignet!" ("The Model is not Suitable for This!"): The Model of Frame Selection and a Corrective Replication of the Findings in the Fehr-G踄hter Experiments on the Development of Cooperation in Public Good Situations.- Sociology in Times of Pandemic: Metatheoretical Considerations and the Example of the Covid-19 Crisis.- When Do People Follow the Behavior of Others? The Effects of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms, and the Werther Effect.- Revenge and Gratitude in Trust-Based Encounters. Experimental Evidence on Process-Based Reciprocity.- How More Severe Punishment Generates Less Norm Enforcement. Further Evidence of Paradoxical Effects of Norm Enforcement in Inspection Games.- Balancedness. Emerson's theory in the Upanishads, in Cooperative Game Theory, and beyond.- Endogenizing Conditions for Cooperation of Rational Egoists.- Opposing Effects of Objective and Subjective Social Status on Prosociality: Theory and Quasi-Experiment.- Green Homeowners? An Empirical Application of Fischel's Homevoter Hypothesis.- How can Employers Signal Trustworthiness to Job Seekers? Determinants of Employer Reputation.