Working Hard to Achieve Self-Defining Group Goals: A Social Identity Analysis

Zeitschrift fur Sozialpsychologie

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 191-203

  Fielding, Kelly S ^a   Hogg, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Group prototype; Motivation; Self categorization; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034551934     PISSN: 00443514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024//0044-3514.31.4.191     Document Type: Article

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