Focus on the success of others leads to selfish behavior

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2912-2917

  Van Den Berg, Pieter ^a   Molleman, Lucas ^a,b   Weissing, Franz J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Cultural evolution; Individual differences; Personality; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELFISH BEHAVIOR; SIMULATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; CLINICAL TRIAL; LEARNING; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84924359223     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1417203112     Document Type: Article

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