How the grapevine keeps you in line: Gossip increases contributions to the group

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 642-649

  Beersma, Bianca ^a   Van Kleef, Gerben A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

contributions to group; dictator game; gossip

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755206186     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611405073     Document Type: Review

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