Pursuing goals with others: Group identification and motivation resulting from things done versus things left undone

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 520-534

  Fishbach, Ayelet ^a   Henderson, Marlone D ^b   Koo, Minjung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Goals; Group productivity; Helping; Identification; Motivation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOALS; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 79961199566     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023907     Document Type: Article

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