Sharing-rule and detection of free-riders in cooperative groups: Evolutionarily important deontic reasoning in the Wason Selection task

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 255-294

  Hiraishi, Kai ^a   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 0242520275     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546780143000026     Document Type: Article

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