Being Unpredictable: Friend or Foe Matters

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 259-267

  Ybarra, Oscar ^a   Keller, Matthew C ^b   Chan, Emily ^c   Garcia, Stephen M ^a   Sanchez Burks, Jeffrey ^a   Rios Morrison, Kimberly ^d   Baron, Andrew S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Colorado College of Nursing   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competitive Advantage; Cooperation; Judging Others; Predicting Behavior; Unpredictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051722584     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610370214     Document Type: Article

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