Who are the trustworthy, we think?

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 68, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 456-465

  Johansson Stenman, Olof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discrimination; In group bias; Self signaling; Social capital; Social distance; Social identity; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249090336     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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