CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 1,165Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionBullying, Victimization, and AggressionSocial and Intergroup Psychology

Does social exclusion motivate interpersonal reconnection? Resolving the “porcupine problem”

Maner, Jon K., DeWall, C. Nathan, Baumeister, Roy F., Schaller, Mark·2007·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.92.1.42
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Evidence from 6 experiments supports the social reconnection hypothesis, which posits that the experience of social exclusion increases the motivation to forge social bonds with new sources of potential affiliation. Threat of social exclusion led participants to express greater interest in making new friends, to increase their desire to work with others, to form more positive impressions of novel social targets, and to assign greater rewards to new interaction partners. Findings also suggest potential boundary conditions to the social reconnection hypothesis. Excluded individuals did not seem to seek reconnection with the specific perpetrators of exclusion or with novel partners with whom no face-to-face interaction was anticipated. Furthermore, fear of negative evaluation moderated responses to exclusion such that participants low in fear of negative evaluation responded to new interaction partners in an affiliative fashion, whereas participants high in fear of negative evaluation did not.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1037/0022-3514.92.1.42

Cites

42 of 42 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Secure peer relationships buffer the negative emotional consequences of exclusion and may serve as a critical avenue through which individuals attempt to reestablish social connection.

    “Under such conditions, secure peer relationships not only buffer the negative emotional consequences of exclusion (Maner et al., 2007), but may also serve as a critical avenue through which individuals attempt to reestablish social connection (DeWall & Bushman, 2011).”

    From Peer Attachment and Prosocial Behavior: The Mediating Role of Positive Legal Emotion and the Moderating Effect of Social Exclusion (2026) · cites this paper as Maner et al., 2007

  • The negative state of isolation can trigger the motivation to seek and engage in social contact.

    “Therefore, the negative state of isolation can trigger the motivation to seek and engage in social contact (Baumeister and Leary, 1995, Maner et al., 2007, Williams and Sommer, 1997), perhaps as an evolutionarily conserved mechanism to maintain social connections (Buss, 1990).”

    From Dorsal raphe dopamine neurons represent the experience of social isolation (2016) · cites this paper as Maner et al., 2007

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Maner, J. K., DeWall, C. N., Baumeister, R. F., & Schaller, M.
Affiliations
  • Florida State University (US)
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2007-01
Volume
92
Issue
1
Pages
42-55
ISSN
  • 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1315
DOI
10.1037/0022-3514.92.1.42
OpenAlex
W2154486938
Cited by
1,165
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 41 · 2025: 64 · 2024: 68 · 2023: 61 · 2022: 70 · 2021: 93 · 2020: 97 · 2019: 72 · 2018: 59 · 2017: 67 · 2016: 63 · 2015: 70 · 2014: 68 · 2013: 62 · 2012: 46
FWCI
55.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (MH72848, MH65559)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords
social exclusion, need for affiliation, fear of negative evaluation, social bonding, impression formation, reward allocation, boundary conditions
MeSH terms
Analysis of Variance, Anxiety, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Motivation, Regression Analysis, Rejection, Psychology, Social Behavior, Social Isolation

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review