Good times, bad times: How personal disadvantage moderates the relationship between social dominance and efforts to win

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1420-1433

  Cozzolino, Philip J ^a   Snyder, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Disadvantage; Dominance; Effort; Greed

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTHORITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ETHICS; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTHORITARIANISM; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PRINCIPLE-BASED ETHICS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 51049089343     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167208321595     Document Type: Article

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