The Accentuation Bias: Money Literally Looms Larger (and Sometimes Smaller) to the Powerless

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-205

  Dubois, David ^a   Rucker, Derek D ^a   Galinsky, Adam D ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

money; power; social hierarchies; value perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952860796     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610365170     Document Type: Article

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