Equity or equality? Moral judgments follow the money

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1797, 2014, Pages

  DeScioli, Peter ^a   Massenkoff, Maxim ^b   Shaw, Alex ^c   Petersen, Michael Bang ^d   Kurzban, Robert ^e  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; Fairness; Morality

Indexed keywords

EQUITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORALITY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT;

ADULT; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; MOTIVATION; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS;

EID: 84908377254     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2112     Document Type: Article

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