Mood effects on cooperation in small groups: Does positive mood simply lead to more cooperation?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 441-472

  Hertel, Guido ^a   Neuhof, Jochen ^b   Theuer, Thomas ^b   Kerr, Norbert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; IMITATION; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0033919058     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026999300402754     Document Type: Review

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