Social categories and group preference disputes: The aversion to winner-take-all solutions

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 581-593

  Garcia, Stephen M ^a   Miller, Dale T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Competition; Decision making; Distributive justice; Group disputes; Social categories; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348984006     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430207084721     Document Type: Article

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