Making the sexual harassment of others self-relevant: The roles of identity salience and value affirmation

Social Justice Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 500-526

  Smith, Heather ^a   Citti, Dani ^b  

^a SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fairness judgments; Self affirmation; Self categorization; Social identity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846821563     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11211-006-0027-3     Document Type: Article

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