Negative Self-Synchronization: Will I Change to Be Like You When It Is Bad for Me?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 857-871

  Gabriel, Shira ^a   Kawakami, Kerry ^b   Bartak, Christopher ^c   Kang, So Jin ^b   Mann, Nikki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Automatic social behavior; Need to belong; Risk regulation; Self other overlap

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IDENTITY; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; CUES; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954766613     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019272     Document Type: Article

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