Behind the veil of ignorance: Self-serving bias in climate change negotiations

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 602-615

  Kriss, Peter H ^a   Loewenstein, George ^a   Wang, Xianghong ^b   Weber, Roberto A ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fairness; Negotiation; Self serving bias; Veil of ignorance

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055099738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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