Escalation in Response to Persistent Annoyance: Groups Versus Individuals and Gender Effects

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 151-163

  Mikolic, Joseph M ^a,b   Parker, John C ^a,b   Pruitt, Dean G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

EID: 0030639843     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.1.151     Document Type: Article

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