The effects of social identification on individual effort under conditions of identity threat and regulatory depletion

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 195-208

  Giguère, Benjamin ^a   Lalonde, Richard N ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Identity threat; Regulatory depletion; Social identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 61749090162     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430208101056     Document Type: Article

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