An economic anatomy of culture: Attitudes and behaviour in inter- and intra-national ultimatum game experiments

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 732-744

  Chuah, Swee Hoon ^a   Hoffmann, Robert ^a   Jones, Martin ^b   Williams, Geoffrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Culture; Experiments; Ultimatum game; World values survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 70049085838     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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