Accidental outcomes guide punishment in a "trembling hand" game

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Cushman, Fiery ^a   Dreber, Anna ^a,b   Wang, Ying ^a   Costa, Jay ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; PUNISHMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIOR; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PUNISHMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69849115909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006699     Document Type: Article

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