Affiliation during naturalistic severe and mild initiations: Some further evidence against the severity-attraction hypothesis

Current Research in Social Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2001, Pages

  Lodewijkx, Hein F M ^a   Syroit, J E M M ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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