On hotheads and dirty harries: The primacy of anger in altruistic punishment

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1167, Issue , 2009, Pages 190-196

  Seip, Elise C ^a   Van Dijk, Wilco W ^b   Rotteveel, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Altruistic punishment; Anger; Emotion; Fairness

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISTIC PUNISHMENT; ANGER; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMOTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PUNISHMENT; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 67649644468     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04503.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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