Egoism Bias in Social Dilemmas with Resource Uncertainty

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 351-365

  Gustafsson, Mathias ^a   Biel, Anders ^a   Gärling, Tommy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

outcome desirability bias; resource uncertainty; social dilemmas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993725190     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430200003004002     Document Type: Article

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