Wild Justice Redux: What We Know About Social Justice in Animals and Why It Matters

Social Justice Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 122-139

  Pierce, Jessica ^a,c   Bekoff, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animals; Canids; Cognitive ethology; Cooperation; Empathy; Ethics; Fairness; Inequity aversion; Morality; Play; Primates; Prosocial, captive; Social justice; Wild justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861713077     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11211-012-0154-y     Document Type: Article

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