Me against we: In-group transgression, collective shame, and in-group-directed hostility

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 634-649

  Piff, Paul K ^a   Martinez, Andres G ^a   Keltner, Dacher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective guilt; Collective shame; In group transgression; In group directed hostility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLECTIVE SHAME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GUILT; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; IN GROUP DIRECTED HOSTILITY; IN GROUP TRANSGRESSION; MALE; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SHAME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; COMPLICITY; FEMALE; GUILT; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; SHAME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84861508182     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.595394     Document Type: Article

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