Prosocial behavior and gender

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Espinosa, María Paz ^a   Kovárik, Jaromír ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Altruism; Economic games; Gender; Prosocial behavior; Treatment effects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PREDICTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX ROLE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL FRAMING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 84939815854     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00088     Document Type: Article

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