Keeping others in our mind or in our heart? Distribution games under cognitive load

Experimental Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 562-576

  Hauge, Karen Evelyn ^a   Brekke, Kjell Arne ^b   Johansson, Lars Olof ^c   Johansson Stenman, Olof ^d   Svedsäter, Henrik ^e  

^a RAGNAR FRISCH CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charity game; Cognitive load; Dictator game; Lab experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933054673     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-015-9454-z     Document Type: Article

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