Affect, Social Pressure and Prosocial Motivation: Field Experimental Evidence of the Mobilizing Effects of Pride, Shame and Publicizing Voting Behavior

Political Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-386

  Panagopoulos, Costas ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotions; Field experiment; Pride; Prosocial behavior; Public surveillance; Shame; Social pressure; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956170259     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-010-9114-0     Document Type: Article

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