Attracted to power: Challenge/threat and promotion/prevention focus differentially predict the attractiveness of group power

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Scholl, Annika ^a   Sassenrath, Claudia ^a   Sassenberg, Kai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Challenge; Groups; Regulatory focus; Social power; Threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930623449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00397     Document Type: Article

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