Admiration: A Conceptual Review

Emotion Review

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 218-230

  Onu, Diana ^a   Kessler, Thomas ^b   Smith, Joanne R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

admiration; cultural transmission; role models; social comparison; social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978060436     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: 17540747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073915610438     Document Type: Review

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