Collective-Goal Ascription Increases Cooperation in Humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Mitkidis, Panagiotis ^a,b   Sørensen, Jesper ^a   Nielbo, Kristoffer L ^a,d   Andersen, Marc ^a   Lienard, Pierre ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; EMOTIONALITY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; GOAL ASCRIPTION; HUMAN; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; GOALS; HUMANS; INVESTMENTS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877980921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064776     Document Type: Article

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