Managing Others Like You Were Managed: How Prevention Focus Motivates Copying Interpersonal Norms

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 647-663

  Zhang, Shu ^a   Higgins, E Tory ^a,b   Chen, Guoquan ^a,c  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Copying; Interpersonal relationships; Motivation; Norms; Regulatory focus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMITATION; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROLE PLAYING; STUDENT;

ADULT; ASPIRATIONS (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; ROLE; STUDENTS;

EID: 79953726995     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021750     Document Type: Article

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