Eyes are on us, but nobody cares: Are eye cues relevant for strong reciprocity?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1686, 2010, Pages 1315-1323

  Fehr, Ernst ^a   Schneider, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Altruism; Cues; Reputation; Strong reciprocity; Trust game

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; EYE; RECIPROCITY; VISUAL CUE;

EID: 77952259570     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1900     Document Type: Article

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