Altruism and social integration

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 249-257

  Brañas Garza, Pablo ^a   Cobo Reyes, Ramón ^a   Espinosa, María Paz ^b   Jiménez, Natalia ^a   Kovářík, Jaromír ^b   Ponti, Giovanni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Altruism; Centrality; Social network experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953536734     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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