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Psychological Sciences Faculty

Kip WilliamsKip Williams

Professor, Social Area

Mailing Address:
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
703 Third Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2081 USA

Campus Address:
Psychological Sciences, Room 2166

E-mail: kip@psych.purdue.edu
Telephone: (765) 494-0845
Website: http://www1.psych.purdue.edu/~willia55


Degree: Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1981

Research Interests:

My interests lie broadly in group processes and social influence. My specific research topics include ostracism, group motivation, and tactics of influence.

Recent Publications:

Williams, K. D. (2009). Ostracism: A temporal need-threat model. In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 41, (pp. 279-314). NY: Academic Press.

Jones, E. E., Carter-Sowell, A. R., Kelly, J. R., & Williams, K. D. (2009). What you don't know can hurt: Effects of being out of the loop. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 12, 157-174.

Wirth, J. H., & Williams, K. D. (2009). “They don't like our kind": Consequences of being ostracized while possessing a group membership. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 12, 111-127.

Williams, K. D., & Carter-Sowell, A. R. (2009). Marginalization through social ostracism: Effects of being ignored and excluded. In F. Butera & J. Levine (eds.), Coping with minority status: Responses to exclusion and inclusion (pp. 104-122). London: Cambridge University Press.

Williams, K. D., & Nida, S. A. (2009). Is ostracism worse than bullying? In M. Kern (Ed.), Bullying, rejection, and peer victimization: A social cognitive neuroscience perspective (pp. 279-296). New York: Springer.

Lustenberger, D. E., & Williams, K. D. (2009). Ostracism in organizations. In J. Greenberg and M. S. Edwards (Eds.), Voice and silence in organizations (pp. 245-274). Bingley, UK: Emerald.

Wesselmann, E. D., Butler, F. A., Williams, K. D., & Pickett, C. L. (2010). Adding injury to insult: Unexpected rejection leads to more aggressive responses. Aggressive Behavior, 35, 1-6.

Goodwin, S. A., Williams, K. D., & Carter-Sowell, A. R. (2010). The psychological sting of stigma: The costs of attributing ostracism to racism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 612-618.

Williams, K. D. (2010). Dyads can be groups (and often are). Small Group Research, 41, 268-274.

Wesselmann, E. D., & Williams, K. D. (2010). The potential balm of religion and spirituality for recovering from ostracism. Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion, 7, 29-45.

Carter-Sowell, A. R., Wesselmann, E. D., Wirth, J. H., Law, A. T., Williams, K. D., Chen, Z., Kosasih, M. W., & van der Lee, R. (2010). Strides for belonging trump strides for superiority: Effects of being ostracized for being superior or inferior to the others. Journal of Individual Psychology, 66, 68-92.

DeWall, C. N., Twenge, J. M., Bushman, B. J., Im, C., & Williams, K. D. (2010). A little acceptance goes a long way: Applying social impact theory to the rejection- aggression link. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1, 168-174.

Wirth, J., Sacco, D. F., Hugenberg, K. & Williams, K. D. (2010). Eye gaze as relational evaluation: Averted eye gaze leads to feelings of ostracism and relational devaluation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 869-88.

Jamieson, J., Harkins, S. G., & Williams, K. D. (2010). Need-threat can motivate performance after ostracism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 690-702.

Sebastian, C., Viding, E., Williams, K. D., & Blakemore, S. J. (2010). Social brain development and the affective consequences of ostracism in adolescence. Brain & Cognition, 72, 134-145.

Chen, Z., & Williams, K. D. (2010). Social pain is easily relived and prelived, but physical pain is not. In G. MacDonald & L. A. Jensen-Campbell (Eds.), Social pain: Neuropsychological and health implications of loss and exclusion (pp. 161- 177). Washington, D.C.: APA.

Williams, K. D., Chen, Z., & Wegener, D. (2010). A need-threat analysis of persuasion. In J. Cooper, W. Crano, & J. P. Forgas (Eds.), The psychological of attitudes and attitude change (pp. 199-213). New York: The Psychology Press.

Chen, Z., Law, A. T., & Williams, K. D. (2010). The uncertainty of ostracism. In R. M. Arkin, K. C. Oleson, & P. J. Carroll (Eds.), The uncertain self: A handbook of perspectives from social and personality psychology (pp. 291-302). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Riva, P., Wirth, J. H., & Williams, K. D. (2011). The consequences of pain: The social and physical pain overlap on psychological responses. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 681-687.

Williams, K. D., & Nida, S. A. (2011). Ostracism: Consequences and coping. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 71-75.

Van Beest, I., & Williams, K. D. (2011). “Why hast thou forsaken me?”: The effect of thinking about being ostracized by God on well-being and prosocial behavior. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 2, 379-386.

Van Beest, I., Williams, K. D., & van Dijk, E. (2011). Cyberbomb: Effects of being ostracized from a death game. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 14, 581-596.

Prislin, R., Sawicki, V., & Williams, K. D. (2011). New majorities' abuse of power: Effects of perceived control and social support. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 14, 489-504.

Hawkley, L. C., Williams, K. D., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2011). Responses to ostracism across adulthood. Social, Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 6, 234-243.

Sacco, D., Wirth, J. H., Hugenberg, K., Chen, Z., & Williams, K. D. (2011). The world in black and white: Ostracism enhances the categorical perception of social information. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 836-842.

Forgas, J. P., Kruglanski, A., & Williams, K. D. (Eds.) (2011). Social conflict and aggression. NY: Psychology Press.

Williams, K. D., & Wesselmann, E. D. (2011). Ostracism and aggression. In J. Forgas, A. Kruglanski, & K. D. Williams (Eds.), Social conflict and aggression (pp. 37-52). New York: Psychology Press.

Wesselmann, E. D., & Williams, K. D. (2011). Ostracism in Cyberspace: Being ignored and excluded in electronic-based interactions. In Birchmeier, Z., Dietz-Uhler, B, and Stasser, G. (Eds.), Strategic Use of Technology (pp. 127-144). New York: Cambridge.