Social Context and the Dynamics of Cooperative Choice

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 159-166

  Rand, David G ^a   Newman, George E ^a   Wurzbacher, Owen M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Cooperation; Dual process; Framing; In group bias; Intuition; Time pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925257459     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.1837     Document Type: Article

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