Keeping it to ourselves: Effects of audience size and composition on reactions to criticisms of the ingroup

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 8, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 231-244

  Elder, Tracey J ^a   Sutton, Robbie M ^a   Douglas, Karen M ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audience; Context; Criticism; Intergroup relations; Reactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 28444463678     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430205053940     Document Type: Article

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