Value of Information, Behavioral Guidelines, and Social Value Orientation in an Information-Exchange Dilemma

Group Dynamics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-186

  Kimmerle, Joachim ^a   Wodzicki, Katrin ^b   Jarodzka, Halszka ^c   Cress, Ulrike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Guidelines; Information exchange; Social dilemma; Social value orientation; Value of information

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958736831     PISSN: 10892699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021467     Document Type: Article

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