On Reluctance to Communicate Undesirable Information: The MUM Effect

The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations.

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Changes in interpersonal perception as a means of reducing cognitive dissonance.

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Upward Communication in Experimentally Created Hierarchies

Arthur R. Cohen · Human Relations · 1958 · 114 citations

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Arbitrariness of frustration and its consequences for aggression in a social situation1

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The Effect of an Audience Upon What is Remembered

Claire Zimmerman, Raymond A. Bauer · Public Opinion Quarterly · 1956 · 65 citations

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