Recordkeeping alters economic history by promoting reciprocity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1009-1014

  Basu, Sudipta ^a   Dickhaut, John ^b   Hecht, Gary ^c   Towry, Kristy ^c   Waymire, Gregory ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting; Economic institutions; Image score; Memory; Trust

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; INFORMATION STORAGE; MEMORY; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RECORDS AS TOPIC; RISK; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 59049097635     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811967106     Document Type: Article

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