The give-or-take-some dilemma: An empirical investigation of a hybrid social dilemma

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-95

  McCarter, Matthew W ^a   Budescu, David V ^b   Scheffran, Jürgen ^c  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental uncertainty; Give some dilemmas; Hybrid social dilemmas; Logic of appropriateness; Social dilemmas; Social uncertainty; Take some dilemmas

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960833885     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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