The effect of subtle religious representations on cooperation

International Journal of Social Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 900-910

  Ahmed, Ali ^a,b   Hammarstedt, Mats ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; Cooperation; Experiment; Individual behaviour; Influence; Priming; Public goods game; Religion; Semantics

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; PUBLIC GOODS; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80053067263     PISSN: 03068293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03068291111171405     Document Type: Article

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