Spite: Altruism's evil twin

Oikos

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 413-416

  Vickery, W L ^a   Brown, J S ^b   FitzGerald, Gerard J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0042913309     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0579.2003.12410.x     Document Type: Article

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