On the outside looking in: Loneliness and social monitoring

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1549-1560

  Gardner, Wendi L ^a   Pickett, Cynthia L ^b   Jefferis, Valerie ^c   Knowles, Megan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Loneliness; Memory; Nonverbal communication; Social acceptance; Social skills

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONELINESS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27644516302     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167205277208     Document Type: Article

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