Individual and group decisions in the centipede game: Are groups more "rational" players?

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 599-605

  Bornstein, Gary ^a   Kugler, Tamar ^a   Ziegelmeyer, Anthony ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

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EID: 10644277740     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2003.11.003     Document Type: Article

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