Correlates of cooperation in a one-shot high-stakes televised prisoners' dilemma

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Burton Chellew, Maxwell N ^a   West, Stuart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; MALE; PRISONER; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELEVISION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN RELATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; TELEVISION;

EID: 84859226925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033344     Document Type: Article

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