Managing equality in social dilemmas: Emotional and retributive implications

Social Justice Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-67

  Stouten, Jeroen ^a   De Cremer, David ^b   Van Dijk, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributive justice; Emotions; Equality; Retribution; Social dilemmas

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249886318     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11211-007-0032-1     Document Type: Article

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