Ostracism Online: A social media ostracism paradigm

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 361-373

  Wolf, Wouter ^a,c   Levordashka, Ana ^a,d   Ruff, Johanna R ^a   Kraaijeveld, Steven ^a   Lueckmann, Jan Matthis ^a   Williams, Kipling D ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exclusion; Ostracism; Rejection; Social media

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CROWDSOURCING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CROWDSOURCING; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84939887448     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-014-0475-x     Document Type: Article

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