Fate or fight: Exploring the hedonic costs of competition

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-186

  Hsee, Christopher K ^a   Shen, Luxi ^a   Zhang, Shirley ^b   Chen, Jingqiu ^b   Zhang, Li ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Competition; Control; Happiness; Resource allocation; Resource distribution; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866625450     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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