Is virtue its own reward? Self-sacrificial decisions for thesake of fairness

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 839-865

  Turillo, Carmelo Joseph ^a   Folger, Robert ^a   Lavelle, James J ^a   Umphress, Elizabeth E ^a   Gee, Julie O ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036741004     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-5978(02)00032-8     Document Type: Article

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