Responses to scarcity: A commodity theory perspective on reactance and rumination

Motivational Analyses of Social Behavior: Building on Jack Brehm's Contributions to Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 129-148

  Brock, Timothy C ^a   Mazzocco, Philip J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410610089     Document Type: Chapter

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