Emotional reactions to deviance in groups: The relation between number of angry reactions, felt rejection, and conformity

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Heerdink, Marc W ^a   van Kleef, Gerben A ^a   Homan, Astrid C ^a   Fischer, Agneta H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conformity; Deviance; Emotion; Group processes; Social exclusion; Social influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940570574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00830     Document Type: Article

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