Heterogeneous preferences for altruism: Gender and personality, social status, giving and taking

Experimental Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 490-506

  Visser, Michael S ^a   Roelofs, Matthew R ^b  

^a SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Framing effects; Gender; Personality; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255129340     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-011-9278-4     Document Type: Article

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