Altruistic behavior and cooperation: The role of intrinsic expectation when reputational information is incomplete

Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-48

  Ellers, Jacintha ^a   van der Pool, Nadia C E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Altruism; Competitive altruism; Conditional cooperation; Dictator game; Reputation building

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952935563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14747049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/147470491000800105     Document Type: Article

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