Some effects of task relevance and friendship on helping: You don't always help the one you like

1980/11/01 by Abraham Tesser, Jonathan Smith, Jonathan E. Smith · 121 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Behavioral Health and Interventions #Cognitive psychology #Cultural Differences and Values #Friendship #Identification (biology) #Psychology #Relevance (law) #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology #Task (project management) #Test (biology)

paper · doi:10.1016/0022-1031(80)90060-8

published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 16(6), 582-590 (Elsevier BV)

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