Intergroup helping as status relations: Effects of status stability, identification, and type of help on receptivity to high-status group's help

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-110

  Nadler, Arie ^a   Halabi, Samer ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dependency autonomy oriented help; Help seeking; Ingroup identification; Perceived status stability; Reactions to help

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARAB; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JEW; MALE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARABS; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; JEWS; MALE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 33746347994     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.1.97     Document Type: Article

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