Defend or repair? Explaining responses to in-group moral failure by disentangling feelings of shame, rejection, and inferiority

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 941-960

  Gausel, Nicolay ^a   Leach, Colin Wayne ^b   Vignoles, Vivian L ^c   Brown, Rupert ^c  

^a ØSTFOLD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Condemnation; Inferiority; Moral; Rejection; Shame

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPENSATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; NORWAY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SHAME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORALS; MOTIVATION; NORWAY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SHAME; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84864849502     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027233     Document Type: Article

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