Patient and impatient punishers of free-riders

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1749, 2012, Pages 4923-4928

  Espín, Antonio M ^a   Brañas Garza, Pablo ^b   Herrmann, Benedikt ^c   Gamella, Juan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Altruistic punishment; Competition; Cooperation; Delay discounting; Self control

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84869099048     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2043     Document Type: Article

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