Ostracism: The making of the ignored and excluded mind

Interaction Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 359-374

  Williams, Kipling D ^a   Gerber, Jonathan ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ostracism; Rejection; Social exclusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865362887     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.6.3.04wil     Document Type: Article

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