Evolution of trust and trustworthiness: Social awareness favours personality differences

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1657, 2009, Pages 605-613

  McNamara, John M ^a   Stephens, Philip A ^a,c   Dall, Sasha R X ^b   Houston, Alasdair I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural syndromes; Cooperation; Evolution; Game theory; Personality differences; Trust

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; HERITABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 58249095980     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1182     Document Type: Article

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