What benefits the group can also benefit the individual: Group-enhancing and individual-enhancing motives for collective action

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 267-282

  Tropp, Linda R ^a   Brown, Amy C ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective action; Group identification; Individual self enhancement; Relative deprivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 28744446301     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430204046111     Document Type: Article

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