Heuristics guide the implementation of social preferences in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma experiments

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Capraro, Valerio ^a   Jordan, Jillian J ^b   Rand, David G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; MOTIVATION; PRISONER; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GAME; HUMAN RELATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84921900331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06790     Document Type: Article

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