Spontaneous giving under structural inequality: Intuition promotes cooperation in asymmetric social dilemmas

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Lotz, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; INTUITION; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DILEMMA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; INTUITION; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84941345900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131562     Document Type: Article

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