Oxytocin promotes group-serving dishonesty

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5503-5507

  Shalvi, Shaul ^a   De Dreu, Carsten K W ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Ethics; Decision Making; Honesty; Lies

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXPECTATION; GROUP DYNAMICS; GROUP SERVING DISHONESTY; HONESTY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT;

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; BEHAVIORAL ETHICS; DECISION MAKING; HONESTY; LIES;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECEPTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ECONOMICS, BEHAVIORAL; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OXYTOCIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898775154     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1400724111     Document Type: Article

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