Promises and lies: Restoring violated trust

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-19

  Schweitzer, Maurice E ^a   Hershey, John C ^a   Bradlow, Eric T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deception; Negotiation; Trust; Trust repair

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749043466     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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