Benabou and Tirole have done some amazing work integrating economics with psychology, in particular theories of identity. Below is a link to their latest work, which is breathtaking in scope.
http://ftp.iza.org/dp2583.pdf
Who would ever have thought that the following paragraph would appear in a cutting-edge economics paper
"males subjects who were told by the experimenters that their score on a personality test was so atypical as to place them squarely in the female part of the distribution were subsequently much more likely than the control group to harass a female (but not a male) chat-line user by sending her pornographic images. This effect was further accentuated when she (a confederate) had previously described herself as a professionally ambitious feminist rather than a meek, family oriented traditionalist; it was also more pronounced, the more the subjects had initially self rated themselves as masculine."
Seriously though, this is one to devote some time to
right liam,just be careful who you send images to
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