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    Supports→A researcher applying game theory to model a social situation should unearth subjects' utility functions by identifying their community membership and inferring utility functions from study of community representatives across a range of games.

    The utility functions are the dependent variables, so the games must be independently determined.

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    Gintis (2004), (2009a) argues that data of the sort we have been discussing support the following conjecture about human evolution. Our ancestors approximated maximizers of individual fitness. Somewhere along the evolutionary line these ancestors arrived in circumstances where enough of them optimized their individual fitness by acting so as to optimize the welfare of their group (Sober and Wilson 1998) that a genetic modification went to fixation in the species: we developed preferences not

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