Stranger, Lover, Friend

The Pain of Rejection Does Not Depend

verfasst von: Anne Böckler, Annika Rennert, Tim Raettig
Abstract: 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.
Organisationseinheit(en): Institut für Psychologie
Externe Organisation(en): Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Typ: Artikel
Journal: Social psychology
Band: 52
Seiten: 173-184
Anzahl der Seiten: 12
ISSN: 1864-9335
Publikationsdatum: 31.05.2021
Publikationsstatus: Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed: Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: Sozialpsychologie, Geisteswissenschaftliche Fächer (sonstige), Soziologie und Politikwissenschaften, Psychologie (insg.)
Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung: SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten
Elektronische Version(en): https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000446 (Zugang: Offen)

BibTeX

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title = "Stranger, Lover, Friend: The Pain of Rejection Does Not Depend",
abstract = "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. ",
keywords = "interpersonal relationships, ostracism, rejection, social exclusion, social interaction",
author = "Anne B{\"o}ckler and Annika Rennert and Tim Raettig",
year = "2021",
month = may,
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doi = "10.1027/1864-9335/a000446",
language = "English",
volume = "52",
pages = "173--184",
journal = "Social psychology",
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publisher = "Verlag Hans Huber",
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