Steering sheep: How expressed emotional ambivalence elicits dominance in interdependent decision making contexts

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 66-82

  Rothman, Naomi B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance; Emotional ambivalence; Emotions; Negotiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960836364     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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