On lab rats

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 714-720

  Guillén, Pablo ^a   Veszteg, Róbert F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Demographic characteristics; Experiments; Subject pool

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864797841     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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