Variation in cooperative behaviour within a single city

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Nettle, Daniel ^a   Colléony, Agathe ^a,b   Cockerill, Maria ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c North Tyneside Council   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MALE; NATURALISTIC INQUIRY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; CRIME; DEMOGRAPHY; GAME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; CITIES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CRIME; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 80055055430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026922     Document Type: Article

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