Coalitional Effects on Reciprocal Fairness in the Ultimatum Game: A Case from the Ecuadorian Amazon

Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Patton, John Q ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achuar; Coalitional effects; Coalitional stability; Conambo; Cooperation; Ecuador; Ethnic groups; Fair play; Perceptions of trust; Political groups; Quichua; Reciprocal fairness; Reputation; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920446199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199262055.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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