Where do social norms come from? the example of communal sharing

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 331-334

  Kameda, Tatsuya ^a   Takezawa, Masanori ^b   Hastie, Reid ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Evolutionary game; Local ecologies; Social norm

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747061288     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2005.00392.x     Document Type: Review

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