At the first sign of trouble or through thick and thin? When nonconformity is and is not disengagement from a group

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 316-322

  Packer, Dominic J ^a   Miners, Christopher T H ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conformity; Dissent; Normative conflict; Social identity; Social influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655178033     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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