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Competition over Personal Resources Favors Contribution to Shared Resources in Human Groups

  • Jessica L. Barker ,

    * E-mail: jlbarker@arizona.edu

    Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

    Affiliation Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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  • Pat Barclay,

    Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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  • H. Kern Reeve

    Affiliation Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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Competition over Personal Resources Favors Contribution to Shared Resources in Human Groups

  • Jessica L. Barker, 
  • Pat Barclay, 
  • H. Kern Reeve
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  • Published: March 8, 2013
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058826
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