Interpersonal chemistry through negativity: Bonding by sharing negative attitudes about others

By J. Bosson, Amber A. Johnson, Kate Niederhoffer, W. Swann. 2006

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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2. Jamil Zaki
3. Sally D. Farley

In Social Psychology

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In Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Catastrophe Compassion: Understanding and Extending Prosociality Under Crisis (2020, background): “After disclosing emotion-laden experiences and attitudes with each other, individuals tend to feel more strongly affiliated to one another [33-36].”
• Characteristics of Single-Item Measures in Likert Scale Format (2010, background): “with similar wording and intensity. www.ejbrm.com 4 ISSN 1477-7029 People tend to agree more on the negative (Bosson et al. 2006).”
• Is gossip power? The inverse relationships between gossip, power, and likability (2011, background): “This may be especially true of negative gossipers, who may be asymmetrically extreme because of the greater attention that negative information receives (Baumeister et al., 2001; Bosson et al., 2006).”