Cell phones are useful tools with both practical and social benefits. However, using them in the context of face-to-face conversations may be problematic. We consider this behavior a form ostracism test its effects on satisfaction basic psychological needs for belonging, self-esteem, control, meaningful existence. In Study 1 participants who recalled time which friend was checking cell phone during serious conversation reported feeling more ostracized (ignored excluded), greater pain, threat...

Ostracism's negative consequences have been widely documented, but research has yet to explore the personality characteristics of its targets that precipitate ostracism. Based on theories functions ostracism, we found people are more willing ostracize disagreeable than agreeable (Studies 2 and 3). This outcome was mediated by participants' interpersonal trust toward target, especially strong for who highly endorse fairness as a foundation morality (Study 4). Ironically, experience ostracism...

Ostracism, excluding and ignoring others, results from a variety of factors. Here, we investigate the effect personality on likelihood becoming target ostracism. Theorizing that individuals low in conscientiousness or agreeableness are at risk getting ostracized, tested our hypotheses within 5 preregistered studies: Four experiments investigating participants' willingness to ostracize targets characterized by different traits reverse correlation face modeling study where determined...

Abstract Does the experience of being socially ostracized increase interest in extreme groups? Drawing from temporal need‐threat model ostracism, and uncertainty‐identity theory, we conducted two experiments testing hypothesis that compared to included individuals, individuals will show greater groups. In Study 1, following a recruitment attempt, participants expressed willingness attend meeting an activist campus organization advocating reducing tuition. 2, openness towards gang membership....

GENERAL COMMENTARY article Front. Hum. Neurosci., 23 April 2013Sec. Brain Health and Clinical Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00153

Following ostracism, individuals are highly sensitive to social cues. Here we investigate whether and when minimal acknowledgment can improve need satisfaction following an ostracism experience. In four studies, participants were either ostracized during Cyberball (Studies 1 2) or through a novel apartment-application paradigm 3 4). To signal thrown ball few times at the end of game, received message that was friendly, neutral, hostile in paradigm. Both forms increased satisfaction, even...

Ghosting—the act of ending a relationship by ceasing communication without explanation—is type ostracism that threatens person’s basic psychological needs for belonging, self-esteem, meaningful existence, and control. The experience ghosting creates uncertainty within the may vary based on individual differences in need closure, which is desire to avoid ambiguity. Across three preregistered studies with emerging adults, we predicted greater closure would be associated lower intentions use...

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated social distancing lockdowns has caused unprecedented changes to life. We consider the possible implications of these for mental health. Drawing from research on ostracism emphasizing importance connection well-being, there is reason concern regarding health effects crisis. However, are also reasons optimism; people can be surprisingly resilient stressful situations, impact tends depend norms (which rapidly changing), depends primarily having at least one...

Ostracism is distressing to those who experience it and people are motivated find ways cope, including self-medication or aggression. However, we know little about how alcohol intoxication may affect individuals' reactions ostracism. This study investigates predictions informed by Alcohol Myopia Theory observe influences changes one's affect, basic needs fulfillment, aggression following Participants (N = 97) were randomly assigned either consume an alcohol, placebo, nonalcohol beverage,...

Alcohol is commonly used to cope with social pain, but its effectiveness remains unknown. Existing theories offer diverging predictions. Pain overlap theory predicts that because alcohol numbs physical pain it should also numb people the negative effects of ostracism. myopia intensifies salient emotions enhance We conducted a field experiment in bar, exposing individuals ostracism or inclusion using Cyberball on an iPad. Subjective intoxication, not blood concentration, was associated less...

While research on the "ostracism-aggression" link has focused controlled processes in aggression, little effort been devoted to examining relation between ostracism and automatic aggression. Based theories of we found that ostracized participants reported higher levels aggression than included (Studies 1 2). Furthermore, association was mediated by anger especially prominent for people low forgiveness (as compared high forgiveness; Study 3). Implications these findings were discussed.

When preregistered, one-tailed tests control false-positive results at the same rate as two-tailed tests. They are also more powerful, provided researcher correctly identified direction of effect. So it is surprising that they not common in psychology. Here I make an argument favor and address mistaken objections researchers may have to using them. The arguments presented here only apply situations where test clearly preregistered. If power truly urgent issue statistics reformers suggest,...

People tend to feel negatively when they are ignored by a conversation partner attending their phone (i.e. 'phubbing'). We investigated how quickly people recover in an experiment where participants provided intensive real-time ratings of mood during simulated with who engaged either no phubbing, single phub, or repeated phubbing. Drawing on ostracism theories, we hypothesized and found that phub induces negative affect, d ≈ 0.40, begin recovering immediately. However, phubbing causes...