Closing the communal gap: The importance of communal affordances in science career motivation

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 662-673

  Brown, Elizabeth R ^a   Thoman, Dustin B ^b   Smith, Jessi L ^c   Diekman, Amanda B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84958923335     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jasp.12327     Document Type: Article

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