I Dare You to Punish Me-Vendettas in Games of Cooperation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Fehl, Katrin ^a   Sommerfeld, Ralf D ^b   Semmann, Dirk ^a   Krambeck, Hans Jürgen ^b   Milinski, Manfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VENDETTA;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; PUNISHMENT;

EID: 84866564115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045093     Document Type: Article

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