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Need Threat Can Motivate Performance After Ostracism
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Ostracism threatens fundamental needs of belonging, self-esteem, control, and meaningful existence, which should motivate participants to respond to this threat. However, research has yet to examine the role of need threat in producing motivation after ostracism. In the current work, participants completed a "cognitive ability" (antisaccade) task following Cyberball-induced ostracism or inclusion. In two experiments, it was found that when ostracized, participants do not see antisaccade performance as a means of responding to the concerns produced by need threat; they respond only to the social threat, leading to worse performance than included participants (Experiments 1 and 2). However, when participants see an avenue of response (the Cyberball players can compare antisaccade performances), ostracized participants outperform included participants (Experiment 2). Moreover, this effect was mediated by the need for belonging, suggesting that ostracized participants were motivated to elevate their inclusionary status by demonstrating their worth on the cognitive ability task.
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“Research on the need-threat model has shown that ostracism can elicit negative affect (Sebastian et al., 2010), and reduce self-esteem (Jamieson, Harkins, & Williams, 2010; Leary, Terdal, Tambor, & Downs, 1995) even in the absence of active, targeted negative feedback such as bullying, harassment, or aggression.”
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“These findings are consistent with the adolescent social-affective learning model (Crone & Dahl, 2012; Yeager et al., 2018, 2017) and the need-threat literature (Jamieson et al., 2010; Sebastian et al., 2010; Wolf et al., 2015) in the sense that social media evaluative feedback that publicly signals undesirable social status triggered negative internalizing-type affective responses that are known”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jamieson, J. P., Harkins, S. G., & Williams, K. D.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Northeastern University (US)
- Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
- Corresponding author
- Jamieson, Jeremy P.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-04-13
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 690-702
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W2023628161
- Cited by
- 192
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 8.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01 DC05237, R01DC005237)
- 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
- ostracism, need threat, motivation, need to belong, self-esteem, Cyberball, antisaccade task, cognitive ability, social inclusion, self-worth, meaningful life
- MeSH terms
- Arousal, Cognition, Female, Games, Experimental, Humans, Male, Motivation, Psychomotor Performance, Self Concept, Social Behavior, Social Isolation
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