Economic games among the Amazonian Tsimane: Exploring the roles of market access, costs of giving, and cooperation on pro-social game behavior

Experimental Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-24

  Gurven, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Experimental economics; Fairness; Tsimane

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043072739     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026256404208     Document Type: Article

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