Affect and fairness: Dictator games under cognitive load

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 77-87

  Schulz, Jonathan F ^a   Fischbacher, Urs ^c,d   Thöni, Christian ^b   Utikal, Verena ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d University of Konstanz and Thurgau Institute of Economics   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Dual system theories; Laboratory experiment; Social preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892841751     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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