Spotting altruistic dictator game players and mingling with them: the elective assortation of classmates

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-113

  Pradel, Julia ^a   Euler, Harald A ^b   Fetchenhauer, Detlef ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Altruism; Assortation; Dictator game; School students; Social perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 58649091305     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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