Reciprocity, culture and human cooperation: previous insights and a new cross-cultural experiment.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on March 27, 2009

Authors

Simon Gächter1, Benedikt Herrmann

Author Affiliations

1: Centre of Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. simon.gaechter@nottingham.ac.uk

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