Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Rand, David G ^a,b   Peysakhovich, Alexander ^a,c   Kraft Todd, Gordon T ^a   Newman, George E ^b   Wurzbacher, Owen ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^c,d   Greene, Joshua D ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COOPERATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DECISION MAKING; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTUITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SOCIAL HEURISTICS HYPOTHESIS; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; HEURISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEURISTICS; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84899095713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4677     Document Type: Article

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