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Melissa Bateson1, Daniel Nettle, Gilbert Roberts.
Abstract
We examined the effect of an image of a pair of eyes on contributions to an honesty box used to collect money for drinks in a university coffee room. People paid nearly three times as much for their drinks when eyes were displayed rather than a control image. This finding provides the first evidence from a naturalistic setting of the importance of cues of being watched, and hence reputational concerns, on human cooperative behaviour.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 17148417 PMCID: PMC1686213 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0509
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biol Lett ISSN: 1744-9561 Impact factor: 3.703