Dragging down and dragging up: How relative group status affects responses to common fate

Group Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 275-288

  Hornsey, Matthew J ^a   Van Leeuwen, Esther ^b   Van Santen, Wendeline ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALIZATION; PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STATUS; STUDENT;

EID: 0347664167     PISSN: 10892699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2699.7.4.275     Document Type: Article

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