Are you being served...? An unobtrusive experiment of affective influences on helping in a department store

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 333-342

  Forgas, Joseph P ^a   Dunn, Elizabeth ^a,b   Granland, Stacey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 41149137735     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: 10990992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.455     Document Type: Article

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