Fairness expectations and altruistic sharing in 15-month-old human infants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Schmidt, Marco F H ^a,b   Sommerville, Jessica A ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; COOPERATION; RECREATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TIME;

ALTRUISM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053920562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023223     Document Type: Article

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