Intergroup Contact and Rice Allocation via a Modified Dictator Game in Rural Cameroon

Field Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 74-90

  Thomae, Manuela ^a   Zeitlyn, David ^b   Griffiths, Sascha S ^c   Van Vugt, Mark ^d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cameroon; dictator game; ecological validity; intergroup contact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872509674     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X12466981     Document Type: Review

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