Heritability of cooperative behavior in the trust game

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3721-3726

  Cesarini, David ^a   Dawes, Christopher T ^b   Fowler, James H ^b   Johannesson, Magnus ^c   Lichtenstein, Paul ^d   Wallace, Björn ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behavioral genetics; Cooperation; Experimental economics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; COOPERATION; FEMALE; GAME; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVESTMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIALIZATION; SWEDEN; TRUST; TWINS; UNITED STATES; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TRUST; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 41649120795     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710069105     Document Type: Article

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