The Effect of Group Attachment and Social Position on Prosocial Behavior. Evidence from Lab-in-the-Field Experiments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Baldassarri, Delia ^a   Grossman, Guy ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; UGANDA;

GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; UGANDA;

EID: 84875432420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058750     Document Type: Article

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