Toward a Natural History of Team Sports

Affiliations

¹ S. C. Johnson College of Business, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA. kmk276@cornell.edu.
² University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.

Review

Kevin M Kniffin et al. Hum Nat. 2018 Sep.

. 2018 Sep;29(3):211-218.

doi: 10.1007/s12110-018-9322-6.

¹ S. C. Johnson College of Business, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA. kmk276@cornell.edu.
² University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.

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Keywords: Play fighting; Team play; Team sports; eSports.

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