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Daniel M. Geller, Lynne Goodstein, Maury Silver, Wendy C. Sternberg, On Being Ignored: The Effects of the Violation of Implicit Rules of Social Interaction, Sociometry, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Dec., 1974), pp. 541-556
Geller et al. (Sun,) studied this question.