Psychological adaptations for assessing gossip veracity

Human Nature

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 337-354

  Hess, Nicole H ^a,b   Hagen, Edward H ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Gossip; Language; Reputation; Signaling theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751049396     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-006-1013-z     Document Type: Article

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