Volunteering leads to rock-paper-scissors dynamics in a public goods game

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6956, 2003, Pages 390-393

  Semmann, Dirk ^a   Krambeck, Hans Jürgen ^a   Milinski, Manfred ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

HUMAN SOCIETIES;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSECT; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC RELATIONS; ROCK PAPER SCISSORS DYNAMICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK; VOLUNTEER;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GAME THEORY; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; PUBLIC SECTOR; SOFTWARE; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

INSECTA;

EID: 0141732289     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01986     Document Type: Article

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