ECONOMIC SCIENCES Correction for “Interaction of natural survival instincts and internalized social norms exploring the Titanic and Lusitania disasters,” by Bruno S. Frey, David A. Savage, and Benno Torgler, which appeared in issue 11, March 16, 2010, of Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (107:4862–4865; first published March 1, 2010; 10.1073/pnas.0911303107).
The authors note the following: “We wish to bring to your attention an issue regarding our PNAS publication referenced above. We had previously published much of the data and results discussing the Titanic (1) and had not properly cited this paper in our PNAS article. In addition, we could have cited refs. 2–5. We apologize for not properly citing our related work and for not citing earlier work of others.”
Bruno S. Frey
David A. Savage
Benno Torgler
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