Egalitarian motive in punishing defectors

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1293-1295

  Scheuring, István ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PUNISHMENT;

EID: 77953023573     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.02.047     Document Type: Letter

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