People recognise when they are really anonymous in an economic game

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 271-278

  Lamba, Shakti ^a   Mace, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altruism; Anonymous; Cues; Human cooperation; Reputation; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953704789     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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