Social exclusion in middle childhood: Rejection events, slow-wave neural activity, and ostracism distress

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 483-495

  Crowley, Michael J ^a   Wu, Jia ^a   Molfese, Peter J ^a   Mayes, Linda C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); Middle childhood; Social exclusion; Social rejection; Source modeling

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BRAIN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78149245019     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2010.500169     Document Type: Article

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