Temporal perspective moderates self-reported responses to social exclusion

Garczynski, Amy M.; Brown, Christina M.

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2014.02.003

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“…Participants were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions: exclusion, inclusion, and control (Appendix A explains distributions across conditions for all studies). We manipulated social exclusion or inclusion by asking participants to visualize and write about sensory details of a previous experience (Garczynski & Brown, 2014; Maner et al, 2007; Appendix B). Participants in the inclusion (exclusion) condition wrote about an experience that made them feel accepted or included (rejected or excluded).…”

Section: Study 1a: Social Exclusion and Advertisement Preference — Domentioning

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Speaking to the heart: Social exclusion and reliance on feelings versus reasons in persuasion

Sinha

2017

J Consum Psychol

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The authors of this study identify an alternative frame of communication for persuading people who feel socially excluded to behave in ways that benefit individual and social wellbeing, regardless of future connection possibilities. The authors suggest that socially excluded (included) consumers tend to rely on affect (cognition) in processing information, and to consequently prefer persuasive messages based on feelings (reasons). The effect occurs because people tend to ruminate about exclusionary events, which depletes self‐regulatory resources. Thus, distraction that interferes with rumination can mitigate the social exclusion effect on affective processing. The authors present findings from five studies across various paradigms promoting personal and social wellbeing (i.e., donating blood, recycling, and consuming healthful foods) and discuss the theoretical and policy implications.

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Section: Study 1a: Social Exclusion and Advertisement Preference — Domentioning

confidence: 99%

Speaking to the heart: Social exclusion and reliance on feelings versus reasons in persuasion

Sinha

2017

J Consum Psychol

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“…One limitation relates to self-reported measures. Although the scales used here are extremely common and are the most widely used measures assessing the impact of ostracism in ostracism research (e.g., Garczynski and Brown, 2014 ; for meta-analyses see Hartgerink et al, 2015 ), participants may have underreported their negative mood and unsatisfied needs. For example, Garczynski and Brown (2014) found that temporal framing, or phrasing ostracism self-reported measures shaped individuals’ responses.…”

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confidence: 99%

Recovery From Ostracism Distress: The Role of Attribution

Yaakobi

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Ostracism is known to cause psychological distress. Thus, defining the factors that can lead to recovery or diminish these negative effects is crucial. Three experiments examined whether suggesting the possible causes of ostracism to victims could decrease or eliminate their ostracism distress. They also examined whether death-anxiety mediated the association between the suggested possible cause for being ostracized and recovery. Participants (N = 656) were randomly assigned to six experimental and control groups and were either ostracized or included in a game of Cyberball. Two control conditions were used: participants who were ostracized but received no explanation and participants who were included. Immediately after the ostracism experience, participants in the experimental groups were presented with one of four causes for being ostracized, using locus of control (internal, external) and stability (stable, unstable), the two causal dimensions of Weiner’s attribution theory. After a short delay they were administered a mood or needs-satisfaction questionnaire. The results highlight the interaction between locus of control and stability, and underscore the relative importance of different attributions in alleviating self-reported ostracism distress. Specifically, both external and unstable attributions decreased distress, and an unstable attribution led to complete recovery in some participants. Thus, recovery from ostracism may be accelerated when the victim receives an explanation for ostracism that attributes the incident to unstable, external causes soon after the incident. Death-anxiety fully mediated the association between locus of control attribution and mood, but for on needs-satisfaction or the stability of the attribution.

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“…While Study 1 asked participants to report their current feelings (i.e., a present tense measure) after the social rejection or inclusion experience, Study 2 asked them to retrospectively report their feelings during this event (i.e., a past tense measure). Previous research has found this latter measure to be more responsive to ostracism (Garczynski & Brown, 2014).…”

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Culture, Emotions, and the Cold Shoulder: Cultural Differences in the Anger and Sadness Response to Ostracism

Kimel

Mischkowski

Kitayama³

et al. 2017

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Ostracism is pervasive across a wide range of cultures. However, little is currently known about how it may be experienced emotionally across cultures. In the current work, we drew on prior cross-cultural evidence and predicted that Westerners would construe social rejection as unfair and unjustifiable (an appraisal consistent with independent self-construal and linked to the emotion of anger) while Easterners would construe the same event not only as unfair but also as situationally constrained and, thus, also “inevitable” (an appraisal consistent with interdependent self-construal and linked to sadness). As predicted, after social rejection within the Cyberball paradigm, European Americans reported experiencing more anger than sadness while East Asians/East Asian Americans (Study 1) and Japanese (Study 2) showed no difference in their levels of these two emotions. In addition, we also found that, compared with European Americans, East Asians/East Asian Americans showed similar levels of overall negative reactions to social rejection (Study 1) while Japanese had a stronger negative response (Study 2). Our findings underscore the central role of culture in shaping the experience of social rejection and suggest possible ways in which people with different cultural backgrounds may cope with it.

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Temporal perspective moderates self-reported responses to social exclusion

Cited by 15 publications

References 40 publications

Speaking to the heart: Social exclusion and reliance on feelings versus reasons in persuasion

Speaking to the heart: Social exclusion and reliance on feelings versus reasons in persuasion

Recovery From Ostracism Distress: The Role of Attribution

Culture, Emotions, and the Cold Shoulder: Cultural Differences in the Anger and Sadness Response to Ostracism

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