Thanks for the compliment? Emotional reactions to group-level versus individual-level compliments and insults

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 307-324

  Garcia, Amber L ^a   Miller, Daniel A ^b   Smith, Eliot R ^c   Mackie, Diane M ^d  

^a AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliments; Intergroup emotions; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745254484     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430206064636     Document Type: Article

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