TY  - JOUR
A1  - Böckler, Anne
A1  - Rennert, Annika
A1  - Raettig, Tim
T1  - Stranger, Lover, Friend?
BT  - The Pain of Rejection Does Not Depend
JF  - Social Psychology
N2  - Social exclusion, even from minimal game-based interactions, induces negative consequences. We investigated whether the nature of the relationship with the excluder modulates the effects of ostracism. Participants played a virtual ball-tossing game with a stranger and a friend (friend condition) or a stranger and their romantic partner (partner condition) while being fully included, fully excluded, excluded only by the stranger, or excluded only by their close other. Replicating previous findings, full exclusion impaired participants’ basic-need satisfaction and relationship evaluation most severely. While the degree of exclusion mattered, the relationship to the excluder did not: Classic null hypothesis testing and Bayesian statistics showed no modulation of ostracism effects depending on whether participants were excluded by a stranger, a friend, or their partner.
KW  - interpersonal relationships
KW  - ostracism
KW  - rejection
KW  - social exclusion
KW  - social interaction
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-238721
SN  - 1864-9335
SN  - 2151-2590
VL  - 52
IS  - 3
ER  -