Behavioral (In)tolerance of equality violation in social dilemmas: When trust affects contribution decisions after violations of equality

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 517-531

  Stouten, Jeroen ^a   de Cremer, David ^b   van Dijk, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Equality; Fairness; Social dilemmas; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449554050     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430209105048     Document Type: Article

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