More equal than others: Equity norms as an integration of cognitive heuristics and contextual cues in bargaining games

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-18

  Civai, Claudia ^a,b   Rumiati, Raffaella Ida ^b   Rustichini, Aldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive heuristics; Economical decision making; Equity; Self other decision making; Ultimatum Game

Indexed keywords

3040; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE HEURISTICS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICAL DECISION-MAKING; EQUITY; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; MALE; SELF-OTHER DECISION-MAKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ULTIMATUM GAME;

3040; COGNITIVE HEURISTICS; ECONOMICAL DECISION-MAKING; EQUITY; SELF-OTHER DECISION-MAKING; ULTIMATUM GAME;

ADULT; COGNITION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84879171425     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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