Learning From Service: The Effect of Helping on Helpers' Social Dominance Orientation

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 850-871

  Brown, Margaret A ^a  

^a SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79954592365     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00738.x     Document Type: Article

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