Private and public decisions in social dilemmas: Evidence from children's behavior

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Houser, Daniel ^a   Montinari, Natalia ^b   Piovesan, Marco ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b and Biogeochemistry   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REWARD; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONTROL; SELFISHNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

EID: 84864750954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041568     Document Type: Article

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