"One of us": Outstanding willingness to help save a single identified compatriot

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 150-157

  Kogut, Tehila ^a   Ritov, Ilana ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Emotion; Identifiable victims

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748961676     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

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