Rethinking spontaneous giving: Extreme time pressure and ego-depletion favor self-regarding reactions

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Capraro, Valerio ^a   Cococcioni, Giorgia ^b  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTICS; HUMAN; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; INTUITION; THINKING;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HEURISTICS; HUMANS; INTUITION; THINKING;

EID: 84973333841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep27219     Document Type: Article

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