Contextualizing emotional display rules: Examining the roles of targets and discrete emotions in shaping display rule perceptions

Journal of Management

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 880-898

  Diefendorff, James M ^a   Greguras, Gary J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Emotional display rules; Emotional labor; Emotions

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249117533     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206308321548     Document Type: Article

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