Antecedents and consequences of satisfaction and guilt following ingroup aggression

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-237

  Maitner, Angela T ^a   Mackie, Diane M ^a   Smith, Eliot R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Guilt; Identification; Intergroup emotion; Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247205198     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430207075154     Document Type: Article

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52. Paper received 2 November 2004; revised version accepted 2 July 2005.