Initial Impressions Determine Behaviours: Morality Predicts the Willingness to Help Newcomers

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-44

  Pagliaro, Stefano ^a   Brambilla, Marco ^b   Sacchi, Simona ^b   D'Angelo, Manuela ^c   Ellemers, Naomi ^d  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Impression formation; Morality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878978241     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1508-y     Document Type: Article

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