Framing and free riding: Emotional responses and punishment in social dilemma games

Experimental Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 254-272

  Cubitt, Robin P ^a   Drouvelis, Michalis ^b   Gächter, Simon ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c CESIFO   (Germany)

^d IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotions; Framing effects; Public goods experiments; Punishment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958776292     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-010-9266-0     Document Type: Article

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