How norms can generate conflict: An experiment on the failure of cooperative micro-motives on the macro-level

Social Forces

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 919-948

  Winter, Fabian ^a   Rauhut, Heiko ^b   Helbing, Dirk ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84872590917     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: 15347605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/sor028     Document Type: Article

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