Hearts and minds: Integrating regulatory focus and relational demography to explain responses to dissimilarity

Organizational Psychology Review

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 119-144

  Chattopadhyay, Prithviraj ^a   George, Elizabeth ^a   Ng, Carmen Kaman ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Diversity relational demography; Emotions moods; Intergroup; Relations; Self identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978657072     PISSN: 20413866     EISSN: 20413874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2041386615574540     Document Type: Article

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