Exploring how people respond to conflicts between self-interest and fairness: Influence of threats to the self on affective reactions to advantageous inequity

Australian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-21

  Loseman, Annemarie ^a   Miedema, Joost ^b   Van Den Bos, Kees ^a   Vermunt, Riël ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Equity; Fairness; Justice; Overpayment; Self threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349111333     PISSN: 00049530     EISSN: 17429536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049530802607605     Document Type: Article

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