Beyond "to Share or Not to Share": The Impartiality Account of Fairness

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 413-417

  Shaw, Alex ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral economics; cooperation; evolutionary psychology; fairness; inequity aversion; reputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884688964     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721413484467     Document Type: Article

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