Externalities Awareness in Anticommons Dilemmas Decreases Defective Behavior

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 228-238

  Dhont, Kristof ^a   Van Hiel, Alain ^a   De Cremer, David ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anticommons; Awareness; Commons; Cooperation; Decision making; Externalities; Social dilemmas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861188744     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.718     Document Type: Article

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