Stranger, Lover, Friend: The Pain of Rejection Does Not Depend

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  • Anne Böckler
  • Annika Rennert
  • Tim Raettig

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  • Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)173-184
Number of pages12
JournalSocial psychology
Volume52
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 31 May 2021

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

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Stranger, Lover, Friend: The Pain of Rejection Does Not Depend. / Böckler, Anne; Rennert, Annika; Raettig, Tim.
In: Social psychology, Vol. 52, No. 3, 31.05.2021, p. 173-184.

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Böckler A, Rennert A, Raettig T. Stranger, Lover, Friend: The Pain of Rejection Does Not Depend. Social psychology. 2021 May 31;52(3):173-184. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000446
Böckler, Anne ; Rennert, Annika ; Raettig, Tim. / Stranger, Lover, Friend : The Pain of Rejection Does Not Depend. In: Social psychology. 2021 ; Vol. 52, No. 3. pp. 173-184.
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