Touching a teddy bear mitigates negative effects of social exclusion to increase prosocial behavior

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 618-626

  Tai, Kenneth ^a   Zheng, Xue ^a   Narayanan, Jayanth ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NONE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

dictator game; prosocial behavior; social exclusion; touch

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755206241     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611404707     Document Type: Review

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