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Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, 111-132 (2006)
DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr1002_2

Interpersonal Rejection as a Determinant of Anger and Aggression

Mark R. Leary

Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University

Jean M. Twenge

Department of Psychology, San Diego State University

Erin Quinlivan

Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University

This article reviews the literature on the relationship between interpersonal rejection and aggression. Four bodies of research are summarized: laboratory experiments that manipulate rejection, rejection among adults in everyday life, rejection in childhood, and individual differences that may moderate the relationship. The theoretical mechanisms behind the effect are then explored. Possible explanations for why rejection leads to anger and aggression include: rejection as a source of pain, rejection as a source of frustration, rejection as a threat to self-esteem, mood improvementfollowing aggression, aggression as social influence, aggression as a means of reestablishing control, retribution, disinhibition, and loss of self-control.


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