Anti-Norm and Pro-Norm Deviance in the Bank and on the Campus: Two Experiments on Subjective Group Dynamics

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 163-182

  Abrams, Dominic ^a   Marques, José ^b   Bown, Nicola ^c   Dougill, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

deviance; group dynamics; social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010955885     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430202005002922     Document Type: Article

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