Getting a cue: the need to belong and enhanced sensitivity to social cues

Pickett, Cynthia L.; Gardner, Wendi L.; Knowles, Megan

doi:10.1177/0146167203262085

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Getting a cue: the need to belong and enhanced sensitivity to social cues

Pickett, Cynthia L., Gardner, Wendi L., Knowles, Megan·2004·Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

DOI 10.1177/0146167203262085

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To successfully establish and maintain social relationships, individuals need to be sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of others. In the current studies, the authors predicted that individuals who are especially concerned with social connectedness--individuals high in the need to belong--would be particularly attentive to and accurate in decoding social cues. In Study 1, individual differences in the need to belong were found to be positively related to accuracy in identifying vocal tone and facial emotion. Study 2 examined attention to vocal tone and accuracy in a more complex social sensitivity task (an empathic accuracy task). Replicating the results of Study 1, need to belong scores predicted both attention to vocal tone and empathic accuracy. Study 3 provided evidence that the enhanced performance shown by those high in the need to belong is specific to social perception skills rather than to cognitive problem solving more generally.

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Authors: Pickett, C. L., Gardner, W. L., & Knowles, M.
Affiliations: University of Chicago (US)
Northwestern University (US)
Corresponding author: Pickett, Cynthia L.
ORCID: Gardner, Wendi L.
Knowles, Megan
Venue: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2004-09
Volume: 30
Issue: 9
Pages: 1095-1107
ISSN: 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
1552-7433
DOI: 10.1177/0146167203262085
OpenAlex: W2156039168
Cited by: 862
References: 37
Citations by year: 2026: 38 · 2025: 44 · 2024: 42 · 2023: 36 · 2022: 56 · 2021: 61 · 2020: 68 · 2019: 46 · 2018: 47 · 2017: 39 · 2016: 48 · 2015: 54 · 2014: 45 · 2013: 42 · 2012: 41
FWCI: 15.10
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Institutes of Health (7r03mh065221-02)
National Institute of Mental Health (MH65221)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords: need to belong, social connectedness, social sensitivity, social perception, facial emotion recognition, empathic accuracy, interpersonal relationships, individual differences
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Adult, Affect, Attention, Color Perception, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Empathy, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Individuality, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Reading, Rejection, Psychology, Semantics, Social Conformity, Social Perception, Speech Acoustics, Speech Perception

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