Risk reduction and resource pooling on a cooperation task

Psychological Record

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 387-410

  Pietras, Cynthia J ^a,b   Cherek, Don R ^a   Lane, Scott D ^a   Tcheremissine, Oleg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33748295560     PISSN: 00332933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03395557     Document Type: Article

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