When happiness makes us selfish, but sadness makes us fair: Affective influences on interpersonal strategies in the dictator game

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 571-576

  Tan, Hui Bing ^a   Forgas, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affect; Economic games; Selfishness; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949874644     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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