What's in a name? Anonymity and social distance in dictator and ultimatum games

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-35

  Charness, Gary ^a   Gneezy, Uri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Experiment; Generosity; Names; Social distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249143902     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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