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Overview

Kipling D. Williams is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions to social psychology and clinical psychology, as well as work spanning health, sociology and political science, and literature and literary theory.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these broad fields, their subfields of research are:

  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Health
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Literature and Literary Theory

Kipling D. Williams's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs

Their recent notable publications include:

  • "Ostracism and social exclusion: Implications for separation, social isolation, and loss" (2022) in Current Opinion in Psychology
  • "Exploring social exclusion: Where we are and where We're going" (2022) in Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • "I'm up here! Sexual objectification leads to feeling ostracized." (2020) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Emotional experiences of ghosting" (2022) in The Journal of Social Psychology
  • "A multi-study examination of attachment and implicit theories of relationships in ghosting experiences" (2021) in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Self and Identity
  • Current Opinion in Psychology
  • The Journal of Social Psychology

They have collaborated often with other researchers such as:

  • Andrew H. Hales
  • Janice R. Kelly
  • Gili Freedman
  • Darcey N. Powell
  • Benjamin Le

Best Publications

  • Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion

    Naomi I. Eisenberger;Naomi I. Eisenberger;Matthew D. Lieberman;Matthew D. Lieberman;Kipling D. Williams;Kipling D. Williams

  • Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing

    Bibb Latané;Kipling Williams;Stephen Harkins

  • Social loafing: A meta-analytic review and theoretical integration.

    Steven J. Karau;Kipling D. Williams

  • Cyberostracism: Effects of being ignored over the Internet.

    Kipling D. Williams;Christopher K. T. Cheung;Wilma Choi

  • How low can you go? Ostracism by a computer is sufficient to lower self-reported levels of belonging, control, self-esteem, and meaningful existence

    Lisa Zadro;Kipling D Williams;Rick Richardson

  • Ostracism: The Power of Silence

    Kipling D. Williams

  • Cyberball : A program for use in research on interpersonal ostracism and acceptance

    Kipling D. Williams;Blair Jarvis

  • Social Ostracism by Coworkers: Does Rejection Lead to Loafing or Compensation?

    Kipling D. Williams;Kristin L. Sommer

  • Ostracism: A temporal need-threat model.

    Kipling D. Williams

  • Identifiability as a deterrant to social loafing: Two cheering experiments.

    Kipling Williams;Stephen G. Harkins;Bibb Latané

  • When ostracism leads to aggression: The moderating effects of control deprivation

    Wayne A. Warburton;Kipling D. Williams;David R. Cairns

  • Social loafing and social compensation: the effects of expectations of co-worker performance.

    Kipling D. Williams;Steven J. Karau

  • When Inclusion Costs and Ostracism Pays, Ostracism Still Hurts

    Ilja van Beest;Kipling D. Williams

  • Ostracism: Consequences and Coping

    Kipling D. Williams;Steve A. Nida

  • Social Brain Development and the Affective Consequences of Ostracism in Adolescence.

    Catherine Sebastian;Essi Viding;Kipling D. Williams;Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  • The Ordinal Effects of Ostracism: A Meta-Analysis of 120 Cyberball Studies

    Chris Hubertus Joseph Hartgerink;Ilja Van Beest;Jelte M Wicherts;Kipling D. Williams

  • The KKK won't let me play: ostracism even by a despised outgroup hurts

    Karen Gonsalkorale;Kipling D. Williams

  • From I to we: Social identity and the collective self.

    Michael A. Hogg;Kipling D. Williams

  • The Effects of Group Diffusion of Cognitive Effort on Attitudes: An Information-Processing View.

    Richard E. Petty;Stephen G. Harkins;Kipling D. Williams

  • Ostracism: The kiss of social death.

    Kipling D. Williams

  • The Social Outcast : Ostracism, Social Exclusion, Rejection, and Bullying

    Kipling D. Williams;Joseph P. Forgas;William Von Hippel

  • Ostracism: The impact of being rendered meaningless.

    Kipling D. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph P. Forgas
Joseph P. Forgas University of New South Wales
William von Hippel
William von Hippel University of Queensland
Janice R. Kelly
Janice R. Kelly Purdue University West Lafayette
Zhansheng Chen
Zhansheng Chen University of Hong Kong
Stephen G. Harkins
Stephen G. Harkins Northeastern University
Ilja van Beest
Ilja van Beest Tilburg University
Bibb Latané
Bibb Latané Florida Atlantic University
John B. Nezlek
John B. Nezlek University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Ladd Wheeler
Ladd Wheeler Macquarie University
John B. Pryor
John B. Pryor Illinois State University

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