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Rejection (Psychology)

Here are entered works on the explicit declaration that an individual or group is ignored or excluded. Works on ignoring or excluding an individual or group, often without an explicit explanation or declaration, are entered under Ostracism (Psychology).

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• Attitude (Psychology)
• Emotions
• Social isolation

• Rejection (Psychology) -- Drama
• Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction

• Social rejection

• Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)

• It's a Shame to Be a Negro, by Hans Lindor (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)
• The Touchstone, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
  • HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text
• Persuasion, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Persuasion (based on the 1906 Stoneleigh edition, with added illustrations), by Jane Austen, contrib. by R. Brimley Johnson, illust. by C. E. Brock and Hugh Thomson (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Persuasion (in French; Paris: Hachette, 1882), by Jane Austen, trans. by Madame Letorsay (Gutenberg text)
• The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel, by W. E. B. Du Bois (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Technique For the Measurement of Attitudes (Archives of Psychology #140, 1932), by Rensis Likert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Acquaintance Process (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1961), by Theodore M. Newcomb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion (New York and London: New York University Press, 1995), by Jennifer L. Manlowe (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Curse of Cain? Racism in the Mormon Church (2004), by Jerald Tanner and Sandra Tanner (illustrated HTML at utlm.org)

• The Canadian, Photoplay Title of The Land of Promise: A Novelization of W. Somerset Maugham's Play (with pictures from the photoplay; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by D. Torbett, contrib. by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Plunderer (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1912), by Roy Norton, illust. by Douglas Duer
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Psychology of Confidence: An Experimental Inquiry (Archives of Psychology #67, 1923), by William Clark Trow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mind-Training: A Practical System for Developing Self-Confidence, Memory, Mental Concentration and Character (Chicago: Human Science School, c1905), by Victor Gabriel Rocine (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Cool Kid -- Like Me!, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Babbitt (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Sinclair Lewis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bartleby

• Suppression Stories (1997), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine-Israel (London: OneWorld Academic, 2024), ed. by Zaha Hassan and H. A. Hellyer (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Cameroon: Blatant Disregard for Human Rights (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Reformasi and Resistance: Human Rights Defenders and Counterterrorism in Indonesia (web version; New York: Human Rights First, c2005), ed. by Neil Hicks and Michael McClintock (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Konspira: Solidarity Underground (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Maciej Lopinski, Marcin Moskit, and Mariusz Wilk, trans. by Jane Cave, contrib. by Lawrence Weschler (HTML at UC Press)

• The New Dissidents: Human Rights Defenders and Counterterrorism in Russia (New York: Human Rights First, c2005), by Archana Pyati, ed. by Michael McClintock (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Lewd and Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), ed. by Katharine Kittredge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dissenting Church: Exploring the Theological Power of Conflict and Disagreement (Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, c2024), ed. by Judith Gruber, Michael Schüssler, and Ryszard Bobrowicz
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer Nature Link
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• The Church: Learning and Teaching (1987), by Ladislas M. Orsy (HTML at womenpriests.org)
• Dr. Stiggins: His Views and Principles (1906), by Arthur Machen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chapters from My Diary (Boston: Revolutionary Age, ca. 1918), by Leon Trotsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Third Testament: A Modern Pilgrim Explores the Spiritual Wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, by Malcolm Muggeridge (multiple formats with commentary at plough.com)

• Bending Opinion: Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain (Leiden: Leiden University Press, c2011), ed. by Ton van Haaften, Henrike Jansen, Jaap de Jong, and Willem Koetsenruijter, contrib. by I. Sluiter, Manfred Kraus, Marie Formarier, Christian Kock, J. Anthony Blair, Daniel J. O'Keefe, Arnolda Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Henrike Jansen, Marianne Dingemanse, Ingrid Persoon, B. A. Andeweg, Hilde van Belle, Joel Best, Peter Burger, Lotte Anemaet, Gabry Vanderveen, Susan Hogben, Cezar Ornatowski, Bart van Klink, Oliver Lembcke, Pablo Leandro Ciocchini, Janet Takens, Anita van Hoof, J. Kleinnijenhuis, Wouter van Atteveldt, Baldwin van Gorp, Mary Vander Goot, Anders Horsbøl, Lisa S. Villadsen, and E. T. Feteris (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Zum Problem der Einfühlung (author's doctoral dissertation, in German; Halle: Buchdruckerei des Waisenhauses, 1917), by Edith Stein
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at wordpress.com

• Communicating Racism: Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1987), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Prejudice in Discourse: An Analysis of Ethnic Prejudice in Cognition and Conversation (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)

• Vaccinating Britain: Mass Vaccination and the Public Since the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, c2019), by Gareth Millward
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • HTML with commentary at NIH

• From the Mind to the Feet: Assessing the Perception-to-Intent-to-Action Dynamic (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2011), ed. by Lawrence A. Kuznar, Allison Astorino-Courtois, and Sarah Canna (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Technique For the Measurement of Attitudes (Archives of Psychology #140, 1932), by Rensis Likert (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Prejudice in Discourse: An Analysis of Ethnic Prejudice in Cognition and Conversation (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Creep: A Life, A Theory, An Apology (Earth: Punctum Books, c2017), by Jonathan Alexander (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• Communicating Racism: Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1987), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Dawn of Day (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by J. M. Kennedy (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Dawn of Day (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1924), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by J. M. Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dynamics of Prejudice: A Psychological and Sociological Study of Veterans, by Bruno Bettelheim and Morris Janowitz (PDF files at ajcarchives.org)
• The Authoritarian Personality (c1950), by Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford (PDF files at ajcarchives.org)
• The Roots of Prejudice Against the Negro in the United States (Boston: Boston University Press, 1948), by Naomi Friedman Goldstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why Men Hate (New York: Beechhurst Press, c1947), by Samuel Tenenbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Learning and Retention of Pleasant and Unpleasant Activities (Archives of Psychology #134, 1932), by Hulsey Cason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Lynn S. Chancer (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• In Defense of Women (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by H. L. Mencken (page images at Harvard)
• In Defense of Women, by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text)

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