When high group status becomes a burden: Requesting outgroup help and spying by members of high and low status groups

Social Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 98-107

  Täuber, Susanne ^a   Van Leeuwen, Esther ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intergroup helping; Perceived threat; Social costs; Stability of status relations; Visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860173166     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000088     Document Type: Article

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