"I Feel Your Pain": The effects of observing ostracism on the ostracism detection system

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1308-1311

  Wesselmann, Eric D ^a   Bagg, Danielle ^a   Williams, Kipling D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Group dynamics; Ostracism; Perspective taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350348391     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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