How personalized and socialized power motivation facilitate antisocial and prosocial decision-making

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1547-1559

  Magee, Joe C ^a   Langner, Carrie A ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisocial; Decision making; Deliberation; Desires; Motivation; Motives; Needs; Power motive; Prosocial; Striving

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349141493     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.07.009     Document Type: Article

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