The silent treatment: Perceptions of its behaviors and associated feelings

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 117-141

  Williams, Kipling D ^a   Shore, Wendelyn J ^b   Grahe, Jon E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ostracism; Silent treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000714801     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430298012002     Document Type: Article

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