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The Handbook of Experimental Economics

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Who wants to know how experimental economics has evolved, what experimental economists cover and do? Anyone who has ever thought why people make seemingly irrational decisions can read this book and find out how the research has been evolving in that regard! Find interesting differences from economists' view, compared with psychologists' view. The book is a must for any experimental economists, and all researchers interested in judgment and decision making. This is a great book for any experimental economics course... and the website maintained by Alvin Roth is a treasure for further research.

if you are considering doing a lab experiment in econ, or would like to be more versed on the subject, this is a must read!
it also provides historical accounts for certain experiments conducted already by experimental psychologists, contrasting the methods and results with the ones done by economists.
(when i bought it, this was the newest handbook you could find, now i guess you should buy the newest version since a lot has happened in this area in the past decade).

The Handbook is a good introduction to some of the key research lines in experimental economics. It is a great place to get started with the literature.