Eager to be the Best, or vigilant not to be the worst: The emergence of regulatory focus in disjunctive and conjunctive group tasks

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 653-671

  Faddegon, Krispijn ^a   Ellemers, Naomi ^a   Scheepers, Daan ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Group; Group tasks; Regulatory focus; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349275611     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430209339922     Document Type: Article

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