Original paper

Spontaneous giving and calculated greed

Nature50.50
Volume: 489, Issue: 7416, Pages: 427 - 430
Published: Sep 19, 2012
Abstract
Economic games are used to investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying cooperative behaviour, and show that intuition supports cooperation in social dilemmas, whereas reflection can undermine these cooperative impulses. Many people are willing to make sacrifices for the common good, but little is known about the cognitive mechanisms that underlie such cooperative behaviour. In economic experiments subjects often contribute cooperatively...
Paper Details
Title
Spontaneous giving and calculated greed
Published Date
Sep 19, 2012
Journal
Volume
489
Issue
7416
Pages
427 - 430
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