ArticlePloS one2017
Ostracism via virtual chat room-Effects on basic needs, anger and pain.
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- Neurobiobehavioral responses to virtual social rejection in females-exploring the influence of oxytocin.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Trial
- The Impact of Cyber-Ostracism on Bystanders' Helping Behavior Among Undergraduates: The Moderating Role of Rejection Sensitivity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The virtual disengagement hypothesis: A neurophysiological framework for reduced empathy on social media.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Review
- Does Cyberostracism Reduce Prosocial Behaviors? The Protective Role of Psychological Resilience.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Different Roles of Rumination and Mindfulness among Cyber-Ostracized Adolescents' Psychological Well-Being.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Recovery From Ostracism Distress: The Role of Attribution.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Construct Validation of Experimental Manipulations in Social Psychology: Current Practices and Recommendations for the Future.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Article
- Trait Aggression is Primarily a Facet of Antagonism: Evidence from Dominance, Latent Correlational, and Item-Level Analyses.Journal of research in personality · 2020Article
- The Verbal Interaction Social Threat Task: A New Paradigm Investigating the Effects of Social Rejection in Men and Women.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
Ostracism is characterized by a social pain provoked by being excluded and ignored. In order to address the effects of social ostracism in virtual non-physical interactions, we developed a more realistic paradigm as an alternative to Cyberball and assessed its effects on participant's expression of basic social needs, emotional experience and painful feeling. The chat room consisted of controlled social dialogue interactions between participants and two other (confederate) chat room partners. Exclusion was manipulated by varying the number of messages a participant received (15% and 33% in exclusion and inclusion, respectively). Analysis of participant (N = 54) responses revealed that exclusion induced a lower experience of basic-need states and greater anger, compared with included participants. In addition, excluded participants reported higher levels of two specific self-pain feelings, namely tortured and hurt. Our findings suggest that this procedure is effective in inducing social ostracism in a realistic and yet highly controlled experimental procedure.
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