Paper Title
If you can't join them, beat them: Effects of social exclusion on aggressive behavior
Keywords
- Social Exclusion
- Aggressive Behavior
- Social Rejection
- Negative Evaluation
- Aversive Noise
- Emotional Mediation
- Experiment Studies
- Interpersonal Interaction
- Aggression Triggers
- Exclusion Effects
- Behavioral Responses
- Rejection Sensitivity
- Psychological Impact
- Social Isolation
- Hostile Behavior
- Rejection Aggression
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Publication Info
Volume: 81 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 1058–1069
Published On
March, 2001
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Abstract
Social exclusion was manipulated by telling people that they would end up alone later in life or that other participants had rejected them. These manipulations caused participants to behave more aggressively. Excluded people issued a more negative job evaluation against someone who insulted them (Experiments 1 and 2). Excluded people also blasted a target with higher levels of aversive noise both when the target had insulted them (Experiment 4) and when the target was a neutral person and no interaction had occurred (Experiment 5). However, excluded people were not more aggressive toward someone who issued praise (Experiment 3). These responses were specific to social exclusion (as opposed to other misfortunes) and were not mediated by emotion.
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