Social distance decreases responders' sensitivity to fairness in the ultimatum game

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 632-638

  Kim, Hyunji ^a   Schnall, Simone ^a   Yi, Do Joon ^b   White, Mathew P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emotion; Hot cold empathy gap; Psychological distance; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884961838     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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