Longer-term consequences of anger expression in negotiation: Retaliation or spillover?

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 753-760

  Van Kleef, Gerben A ^a   Dreu, Carsten K W De ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anger; Apologies; Cooperation; Longer term consequences; Negotiation; Social value orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955587895     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.03.013     Document Type: Article

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