Cyberbomb: Effects of being ostracized from a death game

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 581-596

  Van Beest, Ilja ^a   Williams, Kipling D ^b   Van Dijk, Eric ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aggression; ostracism; peer rejection; survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958755757     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430210389084     Document Type: Article

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