From good institutions to generous citizens: Top-down incentives to cooperate promote subsequent prosociality but not norm enforcement

Cognition

Volumn 167, Issue , 2017, Pages 212-254

  Stagnaro, Michael N ^a   Arechar, Antonio A ^a   Rand, David G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Culture; Dictator game; Habits; Institutions; Learning; Prosociality; Third party punishment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COOPERATION; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEURISTICS; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL NORM; SOCIETY; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; GAME; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HEURISTICS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL NORMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85013782568     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.01.017     Document Type: Article

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