Low-ball and compliance to a request: An application in a field setting

Psychological Reports

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 81-84

  Guéguen, Nicolas ^b   Pascual, Alexandre ^a   Dagot, Lionel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0040077904     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2002.91.1.81     Document Type: Article

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