Dictator game giving: Altruism or artefact?

Experimental Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 122-133

  Bardsley, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altruism; Artificiality; Experiments; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649159484     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-007-9172-2     Document Type: Article

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