It’s Not Me, It’s You: How Gift Giving Creates Giver Identity Threat as a Function of Social Closeness

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  2011

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  Journal of Consumer Research

• Publication date

  2011-06-01

• Fields of study

  Psychology

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  DOI 10.1086/658166
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