Is it all about the self? The effect of self-control depletion on ultimatum game proposers

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Halali, Eliran ^a   Bereby Meyer, Yoella ^a   Ockenfels, Axel ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Dictator game; Dual process; Ego depletion; Fairness; Self control; Social preferences; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SELF CONTROL;

EID: 84977489770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00240     Document Type: Article

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