Arruñada, BenitoCasari, MarcoPancotto, Francesca2020-06-082020-06-082015Arruñada B, Casari M, Pancotto F. Pro-sociality and strategic reasoning in economic decisions. Front Behav Neurosci. 2015 May 28;9:140. DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.001401662-5153http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44924We study the relationship between pro-social preferences and strategic reasoning. These aspects are typically studied separately but little is known about their joint distribution. In an experiment, for each participant we elicit individual concerns toward pro-sociality—inequality aversion and efficiency—as well as the number of steps of reasoning through a guessing game. We report that self-regarding and pro-social participants exhibit similar levels of strategic reasoning, which supports the view that pro-sociality and strategic reasoning can be studied independently.application/pdfeng© 2015 Arruñada, Casari and Pancotto. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00140ExperimentsHomo oeconomicusSocial orientationBounded rationalityinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess