- Oxford Library of Psychology
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About The Editor
- Contributors
- Emerging Perspectives on the Study of Social Exclusion
- Evolutionary Perspectives on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection
- Ostracism and Stages of Coping
- Driven to Exclude: How Core Social Motives Explain Social Exclusion
- The Multi-Motive Model of Responses to Rejection-Related Experiences
- Social Exclusion of Individuals through Interpersonal Discrimination
- Theory and Research on Social Exclusion in Work Groups
- The Dark Side of Divorce
- The Importance of Feeling Valued: Perceived Regard in Romantic Relationships
- Peer Rejection among Children and Adolescents: Antecedents, Reactions, and Maladaptive Pathways
- Rejection and Aggression: Explaining the Paradox
- How and When Exclusion Motivates Social Reconnection
- Social Rejection Reduces Intelligent Thought and Self-Regulation
- Cortisol Responses to Social Exclusion
- Why Rejection Hurts: The Neuroscience of Social Pain
- Social Pain
- Perceived Social Isolation within Personal and Evolutionary Timescales
- The Social Stigma of Identity- and Status-Based Rejection Sensitivity
- Depression and Suicide: Transactional Relations with Rejection
- Individual Differences in Responses to Social Exclusion: Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Self-Compassion
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the Challenges of Social Exclusion
- Attachment Orientations and Reactions to Ostracism in Close Relationships and Groups
- Social Connection and Seeing Human
- Attentional Retraining for Anxiety
- Behavioral Mimicry as an Affiliative Response to Social Exclusion
- Belonging Regulation through the Use of (Para)social Surrogates
- The Birth and Death of Belonging
- Looking Back and Forward: Lessons Learned and Moving Ahead
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Drawing on research and theory from the social identity, stereotyping, stress and coping, and personality literatures, we review research that uses a common theoretical framework (rejection sensitivity; RS) to explore the mechanisms through which stigmatization on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, and age affects and shapes the life experiences of targets of stigmatization. Rejection Sensitivity is conceptualized as a cognitive-affective processing dynamic borne out of past experiences of rejection and maltreatment, and leading to situationally activated anxious expectations of rejection in current contexts. Applied to the context of identity-based stigmatization, we present a review of empirical research aimed at exploring the underlying mechanism by which exposure to cues of identity-based marginalization activates the RS dynamic and leads to variations in perceptions and coping with threat among members of stigmatized groups. We review the RS literature applied to African Americans, Asian Americans, women, gay men, and the elderly.
Keywords: gender, race/ethnicity, rejection, rejection sensitivity, sexual orientation, social identity
Bonita London, Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Lisa Rosenthal, Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- [UNTITLED]
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About The Editor
- Contributors
- Emerging Perspectives on the Study of Social Exclusion
- Evolutionary Perspectives on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection
- Ostracism and Stages of Coping
- Driven to Exclude: How Core Social Motives Explain Social Exclusion
- The Multi-Motive Model of Responses to Rejection-Related Experiences
- Social Exclusion of Individuals through Interpersonal Discrimination
- Theory and Research on Social Exclusion in Work Groups
- The Dark Side of Divorce
- The Importance of Feeling Valued: Perceived Regard in Romantic Relationships
- Peer Rejection among Children and Adolescents: Antecedents, Reactions, and Maladaptive Pathways
- Rejection and Aggression: Explaining the Paradox
- How and When Exclusion Motivates Social Reconnection
- Social Rejection Reduces Intelligent Thought and Self-Regulation
- Cortisol Responses to Social Exclusion
- Why Rejection Hurts: The Neuroscience of Social Pain
- Social Pain
- Perceived Social Isolation within Personal and Evolutionary Timescales
- The Social Stigma of Identity- and Status-Based Rejection Sensitivity
- Depression and Suicide: Transactional Relations with Rejection
- Individual Differences in Responses to Social Exclusion: Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Self-Compassion
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the Challenges of Social Exclusion
- Attachment Orientations and Reactions to Ostracism in Close Relationships and Groups
- Social Connection and Seeing Human
- Attentional Retraining for Anxiety
- Behavioral Mimicry as an Affiliative Response to Social Exclusion
- Belonging Regulation through the Use of (Para)social Surrogates
- The Birth and Death of Belonging
- Looking Back and Forward: Lessons Learned and Moving Ahead
- Index
