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Marcel Zeelenberg1, Seger M Breugelmans2

  • 1Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research (TIBER), Tilburg University, the Netherlands; Department of Marketing, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Current Opinion in Psychology
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Keywords:
Dispositional greedEconomic motiveHarm-to-othersMeasurementWell-being

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