For Members Only: Ingroup Punishment of Fairness Norm Violations in the Ultimatum Game

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 662-670

  Mendoza, Saaid A ^a   Lane, Sean P ^b   Amodio, David M ^b  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

black sheep effect; costly punishment; fairness norms; in group favoritism; ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903536600     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614527115     Document Type: Article

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