Is a partner's competence threatening during dyadic cooperative work?It depends on resource interdependence

European Journal of Psychology of Education

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-154

  Buchs, Céline ^a,c   Butera, Fabrizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Competence threat; Cooperative learning; Informational dependence; Partner's competence; Resource interdependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650508582     PISSN: 02562928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03173007     Document Type: Article

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