Social influences on inequity aversion in children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  McAuliffe, Katherine ^a   Blake, Peter R ^b   Kim, Grace ^c   Wrangham, Richard W ^a   Warneken, Felix ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INEQUITY AVERSION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ONTOGENY; PEER GROUP; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REWARD; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84891393159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080966     Document Type: Article

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