Withdraw or affiliate? The role of humiliation during initiation rituals

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 80-100

  Mann, Liesbeth ^a   Feddes, Allard R ^a   Doosje, Bertjan ^a   Fischer, Agneta H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Hazing; Humiliation; Initiation rituals; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HAZING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HUMILIATION; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGANIZATION; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RITUAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VICTIM; EMOTION; GROUP PROCESS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYMBOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; COLLEGE FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946475933     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1050358     Document Type: Article

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