A positive effect of flowers rather than eye images in a large-scale, cross-cultural dictator game

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1742, 2012, Pages 3556-3564

  Raihani, Nichola J ^a   Bshary, Redouan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cooperative behaviour; Dictator game; Eye images; Fairness; Human cooperation; Reputation

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EYE; FLOWER; GAME THEORY; LABOR MARKET;

EID: 84864362641     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0758     Document Type: Article

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