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Hoodoo Meatbucket
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Jump to navigationJump to searchBand from a psychological study! They were studying getting snubbed in online chat rooms:
Participants assigned to the interpersonal rejection condition experienced a chat room in which the four confederates broke off into dyads based on common interests that could not be shared by the participant (e.g., one dyad shared a love for the imaginary band “Hoodoo Meatbucket”). Dyads directed their comments to one another using initials so it was obvious that no one was addressing the real participants.
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- Wendi L. Gardner, Cynthia L. Pickett and Marilynn B. Brewer "Social Exclusion and Selective Memory: How the Need to belong Influences Memory for Social Events," Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, April 2000.