Personal experience and reputation interact in human decisions to help reciprocally

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1757, 2013, Pages

  Molleman, Lucas ^a   van den Broek, Eva ^b,c   Egas, Martijn ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Direct reciprocity; Experimental economics; Indirect reciprocity; Reciprocal altruism; Repeated games

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; RECIPROCITY;

EID: 84878432431     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.3044     Document Type: Article

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