Evolution & Human Behavior
Volume 27, Issue 5 , Pages 366-380 , September 2006

Does an altruist-detection cognitive mechanism function independently of a cheater-detection cognitive mechanism? Studies using Wason selection tasks

  • Ryo Oda

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    • Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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  • Kai Hiraishi

      Affiliations

    • Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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  • Akiko Matsumoto-Oda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Welfare and Culture, Okinawa University, Naha 902-8521, Japan

Received 16 July 2005 ,Revised 27 March 2006

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PII: S1090-5138(06)00018-3

doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2006.03.002

Evolution & Human Behavior
Volume 27, Issue 5 , Pages 366-380 , September 2006