Why cooperate? An economic perspective is not enough

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 261-277

  Schuster, Richard ^a   Perelberg, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Behavior perspective; Cooperation; Cooperation bias; Coordinated behaviors; Economic perspective; Intrinsic reinforcement; Laboratory model; Proximate explanation; Rats; Ultimate explanation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

CONFERENCE PAPER; COOPERATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; NONHUMAN; REWARD; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 2442519033     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2004.03.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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