High power=Motivation? Low power=Situation? The impact of power, power stability and power motivation on risk-taking

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 486-490

  Hiemer, Julia ^a   Abele, Andrea E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Low vs. high power; Power motivation; Risk taking; Role stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862339124     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.008     Document Type: Article

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