Rumination hinders recovery from ostracism

International Journal of Developmental Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-39

  Wesselmann, Eric D ^a   Ren, Dongning ^b   Swim, Emily ^c   Williams, Kipling D ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Witt/Kieffer   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyberball; Ostracism; recovery; rejection; rumination; social exclusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879802421     PISSN: 2192001X     EISSN: 21917485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/DEV-1312115     Document Type: Article

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