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Publication details [#52361]

Conway, Lucian Gideon, III and Amanda Salcido. 2009. When Self-Censorship Norms Backfire: The Manufacturing of Positive Communication and Its Ironic Consequences for the Perceptions of Groups. Basic and Applied Social Psychology 31 (4) : 335–347.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | group interaction | image | irony | self-correction

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper argues that mediation analysis hold an informational contamination explanation for the backfiring effect of self-censorship norms, which make people doubt other people's positive communications about groups.