Rise and fall of competitiveness in individualistic and collectivistic societies

Competitiveness pervades life: plants compete for sunlight and water, animals for territory and food, and humans for mates and income. Herein we investigate human competitiveness with a natural experiment and a set of behavioral experiments. We compare competitiveness in traditional fishing societie...

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Published in:	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 110; no. 23; p. 9305
Main Authors:	Leibbrandt, Andreas, Gneezy, Uri, List, John A
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 04.06.2013
Subjects:	Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Biological Evolution Brazil Competitive Behavior - physiology Cooperative Behavior Fisheries - methods Games, Experimental Humans Learning - physiology Male Middle Aged Regression Analysis Social Environment Statistics, Nonparametric Brazil endogeneous preferences social learning field experiment
ISSN:	1091-6490, 1091-6490
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