Power increases infidelity among men and women

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1191-1197

  Lammers, Joris ^a   Stoker, Janka I ^b   Jordan, Jennifer ^b   Pollmann, Monique ^a   Stapel, Diederik A ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

emancipation; infidelity; power; sex; status

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052525813     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611416252     Document Type: Article

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