How Much Is Our Fairness Worth? The Effect of Raising Stakes on Offers by Proposers and Minimum Acceptable Offers in Dictator and Ultimatum Games

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Novakova, Julie ^a   Flegr, Jaroslav ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; FAIRNESS; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; MALE; MONEY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELFISHNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875975725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060966     Document Type: Article

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