Emotional ties that bind: The roles of valence and consistency of group emotion in inferences of cohesiveness and common fate

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1703-1715

  Magee, Joe C ^a,c   Tiedens, Larissa Z ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesiveness; Common fate; Emotion; Entitativity; Groups; Inferences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 33751313081     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167206292094     Document Type: Article

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