Retribution and emotional regulation: The effects of time delay in angry economic interactions

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-54

  Wang, Cynthia S ^a,b   Sivanathan, Niro ^c   Narayanan, Jayanth ^a   Ganegoda, Deshani B ^d   Bauer, Monika ^e   Bodenhausen, Galen V ^e   Murnighan, Keith ^f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Emotional regulation; Retribution; Rumination; Time delay

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960835284     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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