Loyal Deviance: Testing the normative conflict model of dissent in social groups

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-18

  Packer, Dominic J ^a   Chasteen, Alison L ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conformity; Dissent; Normative conflict model; Social identity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONFLICT; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; BLOGGING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72749103444     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209350628     Document Type: Article

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