Coupling and decoupling of unfairness and anger in ultimatum bargaining

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 475-489

  Srivastava, Joydeep ^a   Espinoza, Francine ^a   Fedorikhin, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Bargaining; Cognitive appraisal; Emotions; Fairness; Ultimatum

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449779436     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.631     Document Type: Article

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