Ostracism, Exclusion, And Rejection

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Ostracism, Exclusion, and Rejection examines research into the related phenomena of ostracism, exclusion and rejection. Most individuals have experienced both sides of the coin: being ostracized and ostracizing others. People experience mild forms of ostracism on a daily basis, but some endure years and decades of being the social outcast. How does it feel to be shunned, left out, not wanted? Research suggests that even the mildest and briefest forms of ostracism are painful and have downstream consequences to our feelings of social connection. Longer-term ostracism has devastating consequences on individuals’ health and well-being. This innovative compilation covers how being cast out affects the brain and body chemistry, feelings and emotions, thoughts and beliefs, and behaviors. In addition to the primary focus on targets of ostracism, researchers also examine the motives and consequences of ostracizing. Social scientists from social psychology, developmental psychology, neuroscience, communication science, cross-cultural psychology, and anthropology tackle these questions with cutting-edge methods and provocative theories. A key volume for all in those fields, this book also presents applications from the schoolyard to the workplace, and sounds a much-needed call for further research on this universal behavior of all social animals. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 List of Contributors......Page 9 1 Introduction and Overview......Page 12 2 Ostracism: Being Ignored and Excluded......Page 21 3 Alone and Impulsive: Self-regulatory Capacity Mediates and Moderates the Implications of Exclusion......Page 40 4 Motivational and Emotional Aspects of Interpersonal Rejection: Twenty-Five Years of Theory and Research......Page 57 5 The Shared Neural Substrates of Physical and Social Pain......Page 72 6 Acute and Chronic Physiological Consequences of Social Rejection......Page 92 7 Only the Lonely: The Curious Case of Exclusion and Aggression......Page 106 8 Social Exclusion and the Self......Page 124 9 Creating the Silence: Ostracism from the Perspective of the Source......Page 141 10 Social Surrogates and Rejection: How Reading, Watching TV, and Eating Comfort Food Can Ease the Pain of Social Isolation......Page 157 11 Rejection in Romantic Relationships......Page 173 12 Ostracism from a Cross-Cultural Perspective......Page 188 13 Ostracism in Children and Adolescents......Page 203 14 Normative Exclusion and Attraction to Extreme Groups: Resolving Identity-Uncertainty......Page 218 15 Workplace Ostracism......Page 235 16 Social Media and Ostracism......Page 251 17 Anthropological Aspects of Ostracism......Page 269 18 Social Exclusion, Ostracism, and Rejection Research: Where Do we Go from Here?......Page 284 Index......Page 301