'I'm out of the loop': Ostracism through information exclusion

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-174

  Jones, Eric E ^a,b   Carter Sowell, Adrienne R ^a   Kelly, Janice R ^a   Williams, Kipling D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exclusion; Groups; Information sharing; Ostracism; Out of the loop

Indexed keywords

EID: 61749099983     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430208101054     Document Type: Article

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