If you can't join them, beat them: Effects of social exclusion on aggressive behavior

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1058-1069

  Twenge, Jean M ^b   Baumeister, Roy F ^c   Tice, Dianne M ^c   Stucke, Tanja S ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL ALIENATION;

EID: 85047681848     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.81.6.1058     Document Type: Article

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