Foregoing the labor for the fruits: The effect of just world threat on the desire for immediate monetary rewards

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 246-249

  Callan, Mitchell J ^a   Will Shead, N ^b   Olson, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Delay of gratification; Justice motivation; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549094223     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.08.013     Document Type: Article

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