Strategic defensiveness: Public and private responses to group criticism

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 697-716

  Hornsey, Matthew J ^a   Frederiks, Elisha ^a   Smith, Joanne R ^a   Ford, Lindsay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; QUEENSLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38149127187     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466606X170315     Document Type: Article

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