Emotional and behavioral reactions to social undermining: A closer look at perceived offender motives

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-24

  Crossley, Craig D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect emotion; Anger; Attribution; Avoidance; External validity; Forgiveness; Generalizability; Motives; Revenge; Social undermining; Sympathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249105114     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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