Facial expressions as honest signals of cooperative intent in a one-shot anonymous Prisoner's Dilemma game

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 200-209

  Reed, Lawrence Ian ^a   Zeglen, Katharine N ^b   Schmidt, Karen L ^c  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Cooperation; Facial expression; Game theory; Prisoner's Dilemma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859617285     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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