If you can't join them, beat them: Effects of social exclusion on aggressive behavior.
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Social exclusion was manipulated by telling people that they would end up alone later in life or that other participants had rejected them. These manipulations caused participants to behave more aggressively. Excluded people issued a more negative job evaluation against someone who insulted them (Experiments 1 and 2). Excluded people also blasted a target with higher levels of aversive noise both when the target had insulted them (Experiment 4) and when the target was a neutral person and no interaction had occurred (Experiment 5). However, excluded people were not more aggressive toward someone who issued praise (Experiment 3). These responseswere specific to social exclusion (as opposed to other misfortunes) and were not mediated by emotion
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Individual narcissists overreact aggressively to interpersonal exclusion; they do not report being distressed by exclusion, but their physiological reactions and brain activation patterns suggest increased distress while experiencing exclusion.
“This conclusion is further supported by findings that indicate that individual narcissists overreact aggressively to interpersonal exclusion (Twenge et al., 2001).They do not report being distressed by exclusion, but their physiological reactions and brain activation patterns suggest increased distress while experiencing exclusion (Cascio, Konrath, & Falk, 2015;Cheng, Tracy, & Miller, 2013).”
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- Authors
- Twenge, J. M., Baumeister, R. F., Tice, D. M., & Stucke, T. S.
- ORCID
- Baumeister, Roy F.
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 2001-12
- Volume
- 81
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1058-1069
- ISSN
- 1939-1315
- 0022-3514
- Cited by
- 995
- References
- 11
- Language
- en
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