The private rejection of unfair offers and emotional commitment

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

Volumn 106, Issue 28, 2009, Pages 11520-11523

  Yamagishi, Toshio ^a   Horita, Yutaka ^a   Takagishi, Haruto ^a   Shinada, Mizuho ^a   Tanida, Shigehito ^a   Cook, Karen S ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Fairness; Reciprocity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 67650869807     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900636106     Document Type: Article

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