Cooperating if one?s goals are collective-based: Social identification effects in social dilemmas as a function of goal transformation

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1562-1579

  De Cremer, David ^a,c   Van Knippenberg, Daan ^b   Van Dijk, Eric ^d   Van Leeuwen, Esther ^e  

^a Department of Social Psychology   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 44149128675     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00359.x     Document Type: Article

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