Daily Mail, August 22, 2012, Wednesday

Daily Mail

August 22, 2012, Wednesday

Daily Mail (full article)

Revenge of the nerds: Social rejection can 'lead to imaginative thinking and strong independence'

With her co-authors, Lynne Vincent and Jack Goncalo of Cornell University, she decided to consider the impact of rejection on people who take pride in being different from the norm. Such individuals, in a term from the study, are described as possessing an 'independent self-concept'.