Editorial: Parochial Altruism: Pitfalls and Prospects
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1 Experimental and Applied Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2 Peter Löscher Chair of Business Ethics, TUM School of Management, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Decision Analysis, School of Business and Economics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 4 School of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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