Exchanges of group-based favours: Ingroup bias in the prisoner's dilemma game with minimal groups in Japan and New Zealand

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 196-207

  Yamagishi, Toshio ^a   Mifune, Nobuhiro ^a   Liu, James H ^b   Pauling, Joel ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Culture; Generalized exchange; Ingroup bias; Prisoner's dilemma game

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349043432     PISSN: 13672223     EISSN: 1467839X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2008.00258.x     Document Type: Article

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