The good, the bad and the ugly thing to do when sharing information: Revealing, concealing and lying depend on social motivation, distribution and importance of information

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 85-96

  Steinel, Wolfgang ^a   Utz, Sonja ^b   Koning, Lukas ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deception; Group decision making; Information sharing; Social motives

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957138739     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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