On the prevalence of framing effects across subject-pools in a two-person cooperation game

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 849-859

  Goerg, Sebastian J ^a,c   Walkowitz, Gari ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Framing of decision problems; Methodology; Subject pool differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449295171     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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