Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-16

  Small, Deborah A ^a   Loewenstein, George ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dictator game; Identifiable victims; Value of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037273477     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022299422219     Document Type: Article

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