(Still) Modern Times: Objectification at work

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 25-35

  Andrighetto, Luca ^a   Baldissarri, Cristina ^b   Volpato, Chiara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

factory workers; mental states; objectification

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACHINE; MENTAL HEALTH; MODERN TIMES; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORKER;

EID: 84992650108     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: 10990992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2190     Document Type: Article

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