Failure as an asset for high-status persons - Relative group performance and attributed occupational success

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 501-518

  Reinhard, Marc André ^a   Stahlberg, Dagmar ^a   Messner, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

(Gender) stereotypes; Attribution of failure; Attribution of success; Low and high status groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549128370     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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