Intrinsic honesty and the prevalence of rule violations across societies

Nature

Volumn 531, Issue 7595, 2016, Pages 496-499

  Gächter, Simon ^a,b,c   Schulz, Jonathan F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRUPTION; CRIME; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HONESTY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; MALE; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIETY; TAX EVASION; YOUNG ADULT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECEPTION; ECONOMICS; FRAUD; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MORALITY; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; TAX;

SUID HERPESVIRUS 1;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DECEPTION; FEMALE; FRAUD; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; POLITICS; SOCIETIES; STUDENTS; TAXES; VIRTUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961570332     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17160     Document Type: Article

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