Striving for group agency: threat to personal control increases the attractiveness of agentic groups

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Stollberg, Janine ^a   Fritsche, Immo ^a   Bäcker, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

agency; control motivation; group processes; responses to threat; social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85119109667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00649     Document Type: Article

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