Paolo Riva

Paolo Riva

Paolo Riva appears on this site as first author of the 2014 Journal of Social Psychology paper on the effects of ostracism on obedience, with Kipling Williams, Alex Torstrick and Lorenzo Montali.

Who they are

The work of Paolo Riva reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Ostracism.

Key papers

Riva, P., Williams, K. D., Torstrick, A. M., & Montali, L. (2014). Orders to shoot (a camera): Effects of ostracism on obedience. The Journal of Social Psychology, 154(3), 208-216. What it reports: After an online ball-tossing game, participants who had been left out were more likely than those included to obey an instruction to go outside in cold weather and take dozens of photographs.

Key ideas

Ostracism: Being excluded or ignored by others, and the immediate psychological cost of it.

Sources

  1. Riva, P., Williams, K. D., Torstrick, A. M., & Montali, L. (2014). Orders to shoot (a camera): Effects of ostracism on obedience. The Journal of Social Psychology, 154(3), 208-216.