Reflection does not undermine self-interested prosociality

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Rand, David G ^a   Kraft Todd, Gordon T ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Dual process; Economic games; Moral psychology; Prosociality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906904956     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00300     Document Type: Article

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