Holding your place: Reactions to the prospect of status gains and losses

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 396-401

  Pettit, Nathan C ^a   Yong, Kevyn ^b   Spataro, Sandra E ^a  

^a The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management   (United States)

^b HEC PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Intragroup processes; Loss aversion; Status contests; Status gain; Status loss; Status threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749128124     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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