The watching-eye effect on prosocial lying

Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1-5

  Oda, Ryo ^a   Kato, Yuta ^a   Hiraishi, Kai ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b YASUDA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Eye images; Lie; Norm; Prosociality; Reputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946072941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14747049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474704915594959     Document Type: Article

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