“…They thus featured in an online pre‐screen survey used to recruit participants for the experiment, alongside other control variables included for the same purpose. These included a previously validated Norwegian translation of the Experiences in Close Relationship short‐form scale (ECR‐N; Olssøn, Sørebø & Dahl, ), and Norwegian translations of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI; Davis, ; Keaton, ), the Introspectiveness scale (Hansell & Mechanic, ), the Everyday Discrimination scale (EDS; Williams, Yu, Jackson & Anderson, ), the UCLA Loneliness Scale‐3 (Hughes, Waite, Hawkley & Cacioppo, ), a newly developed measure of Experiences of Rejection, a 1‐item measure of meaningfulness and purpose in life, and several other that were of thematic relevance for the laboratory study only.…”