Trust among the avatars: A virtual world experiment, with and without textual and visual cues

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-86

  Atlas, Stephen ^a   Puttermanj, Louis ^b  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80051761851     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4284/0038-4038-78.1.63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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