TY - JOUR
T1 - Clarifying the relationship between ostracism and relational devaluation
AU - Gerber, J. P.
AU - Wheeler, Ladd
PY - 2014/1/2
Y1 - 2014/1/2
N2 - We examine how three perspectives on relational devaluation relate to needs threat following ostracism. In two experiments with 179 first-year psychology students, distress was greatest when participants were ostracized without any prior throws, and distress decreased linearly with increasing prior inclusion. In Experiment 3, using 76 first-year psychology students, we manipulated expectations of exclusion and found expectations predicted distress following ostracism, suggesting ostracism's distress can be influenced by norm-based expectations of inclusion, and that progressive relational devaluation is not a necessary condition for ostracism's distress.
AB - We examine how three perspectives on relational devaluation relate to needs threat following ostracism. In two experiments with 179 first-year psychology students, distress was greatest when participants were ostracized without any prior throws, and distress decreased linearly with increasing prior inclusion. In Experiment 3, using 76 first-year psychology students, we manipulated expectations of exclusion and found expectations predicted distress following ostracism, suggesting ostracism's distress can be influenced by norm-based expectations of inclusion, and that progressive relational devaluation is not a necessary condition for ostracism's distress.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84890821916&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00224545.2013.826619
DO - 10.1080/00224545.2013.826619
M3 - Article
C2 - 24689334
AN - SCOPUS:84890821916
SN - 0022-4545
VL - 154
SP - 14
EP - 27
JO - Journal of Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Social Psychology
IS - 1
ER -