Nice Guys Finish Last and Guys in Last Are Nice: The Clash Between Doing Well and Doing Good

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 692-698

  Lin Healy, Fern ^a   Small, Deborah A ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

altruism; ethics morality; helping prosocial behavior; judgment and decision making; lay theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885596492     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550613476308     Document Type: Article

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