Attachment Orientations and Reactions to Ostracism in Close Relationships and Groups
Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer
Attachment theory is one of the most useful contemporary conceptual frameworks for understanding emotion regulation and mental health. In his exposition of attachment theory, John Bowlby explained ...
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the Challenges of Social Exclusion
Amori Yee Mikami
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent diagnosis among school-age children and symptoms frequently persist into adolescence and adulthood. This chapter describes the high ...
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Attentional Retraining for Anxiety
Norman B. Schmidt
Cognitive models of psychopathology, particularly disorders involving anxiety symptoms, emphasize information processing biases in their development and maintenance. Research has consistently shown ...
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Behavioral Mimicry as an Affiliative Response to Social Exclusion
Jessica L. Lakin and Tanya L. Chartrand
The nonconscious behavioral mimicry and social exclusion literatures are merged to explore whether mimicking the behaviors of others could be a possible affiliative behavior that follows social ...
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Belonging Regulation through the Use of (Para)social Surrogates
Megan L. Knowles
If belonging is a fundamental human need, then social exclusion should motivate reconnection or another means of fulfilling one’s belonging needs. Consistent with this premise, research reveals that ...
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The Birth and Death of Belonging
Jeff Schimel and Jeff Greenberg
Terror management theory (TMT) (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986 ) offers an evolutionary–existential–psychoanalytic perspective on the human motive to belong. According to this view, the ...
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Body Image Disturbance During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
Kelly C. Allison and David B. Sarwer
Body image disturbances are common among women in the general population. Less is known about their prevalence and impact during pregnancy. This chapter examines the history of body image ...
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Cortisol Responses to Social Exclusion
Sally S. Dickerson and Peggy M. Zoccola
Experiences of social exclusion, or contexts that create the potential for social exclusion, not only have potent psychological effects, but they can have physiological consequences as well. This ...
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The Dark Side of Divorce
David A. Sbarra and Ashley E. Mason
This chapter reviews research linking marital separation and divorce to three important outcomes in adults: mental health problems, physical health outcomes, and relational violence, including risk ...
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Depression and Suicide: Transactional Relations with Rejection
Kimberly A. Van Orden and Thomas E. Joiner Jr.
This chapter provides an overview of empirical data supporting the notion of a transactional relationship between depression and rejection, suggesting that rejection is both a cause and consequence ...
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Driven to Exclude: How Core Social Motives Explain Social Exclusion
Michael S. North and Susan T. Fiske
This chapter explores how social exclusion operates via core social motives: Belonging, Understanding, Controlling, Enhancing Self, and Trusting Others (BUC[K]ET; Fiske, 2010a ). Within this ...
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Emerging Perspectives on the Study of Social Exclusion
C. Nathan DeWall
From its beginning, the field of psychology emphasized the importance of social connections. Whether it was monkeys who preferred terrycloth mothers to wired ones, therapists who gave their clients ...
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Emotion in Relationships
Leanne K. Knobloch and Sandra Metts
People's close relationships provide the backdrop for some of their most intensely poignant and conventionally routine experiences of emotion. Although contemporary theories of emotion are ...
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Evolutionary Perspectives on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection
Mark R. Leary and Catherine A. Cottrell
Establishing and maintaining relationships with other people was among the most crucial tasks faced by our evolutionary ancestors. As a result, human beings possess adaptations not only to seek ...
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How and When Exclusion Motivates Social Reconnection
Daniel C. Molden and Jon K. Maner
Because fulfilling needs for social connection is so fundamental to health and well-being, people should be highly motivated to restore social connections when they are threatened. This chapter ...
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The Importance of Feeling Valued: Perceived Regard in Romantic Relationships
Justin V. Cavallo and John G. Holmes
Romantic relationships present people with unparalleled opportunity to fulfill fundamental intimacy goals. However, they also present the risk of experiencing social pain. Recent research has ...
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Individual Differences in Responses to Social Exclusion: Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Self-Compassion
Ashley Batts Allen, Michelle R. vanDellen, and W. Keith Campbell
Experiences of social exclusion disrupt people’s feelings of belongingness. Because self-esteem is connected to how socially connected people feel to important others, such experiences lower state ...
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Looking Back and Forward: Lessons Learned and Moving Ahead
C. Nathan DeWall
Over the past 15 years, psychologists embraced the importance social connections more than ever before. The chapters that included in the Oxford Handbook of Social Exclusion offer the most ...
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The Multi-Motive Model of Responses to Rejection-Related Experiences
Laura Smart Richman
This chapter describes a multimotive model of responses to rejection-related experiences. Social exclusion, like other forms of rejection, represents a threat to our need to be valued and accepted by ...
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Ostracism and Stages of Coping
Eric D. Wesselmann and Kipling D. Williams
Ostracism—being ignored and excluded—is a painful event that many individuals experience. Williams (2009) proposed a temporal model of ostracism, arguing that reactions to ostracism change over time. ...
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