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Stranger, Lover, Friend?
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-238721
- 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’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.…
Subtitle (English): | The Pain of Rejection Does Not Depend |
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Author: | Anne Böckler, Annika Rennert, Tim Raettig |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-238721 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften (Philos., Psycho., Erziehungs- u. Gesell.-Wissensch.) / Institut für Psychologie |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Social Psychology |
ISSN: | 1864-9335 |
ISSN: | 2151-2590 |
Year of Completion: | 2021 |
Volume: | 52 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pagenumber: | 173-184 |
Source: | Social Psychology (2021), 52, pp. 173-184 https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000446 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000446 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Tag: | interpersonal relationships; ostracism; rejection; social exclusion; social interaction |
Release Date: | 2021/12/02 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/05/01 |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |