Marginalization through social ostracism: Effects of being ignored and excluded

Coping with Minority Status: Responses to Exclusion and Inclusion

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 104-122

  Williams, Kipling D ^a   Carter Sowell, Adrienne R ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511804465.006     Document Type: Chapter

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