Predicting support for social action: How values, justice-related variables, discrete emotions, and outcome expectations influence support for the Stolen Generations

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 516-528

  Feather, N T ^a   Woodyatt, Lydia ^a   McKee, Ian R ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emotions; Justice; Outcome expectations; Social action; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869080993     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-011-9262-5     Document Type: Article

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