Adding injury to insult: Unexpected rejection leads to more aggressive responses

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 232-237

  Wesselmann, Eric D ^a   Butler, Fionnuala A ^b   Williams, Kipling D ^a   Pickett, Cynthia L ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Broken sociometer; Ostracism; Social rejection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954645126     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.20347     Document Type: Article

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