ArticlePersonality & social psychology bulletin2023
Connection Heals Wounds: Feeling Listened to Reduces Speakers' Loneliness Following a Social Rejection Disclosure.
Article in Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- A new taxonomy of social support: Clarifying supportive behaviours and measures.Journal of health psychology · 2026Review
- 'Not feeling heard' in health care: A critical review of the detrimental effects of poor-quality listening.Journal of health psychology · 2026Review
- Understanding and Cultivating Effective Listening: A Dialectical Theory of the Tensions Between Intuition and Behavior.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Relational Needs in Grief Scale: Development and Psychometric Validation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- High-quality listening behaviors linked to social connection between strangers.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- How do people perceive listeners?Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- The Interactive Effect of Managers' Listening Behaviors and Emotional Exhaustion on Turnover Intentions of Israeli Healthcare Staff: A Field Study During the COVID-19 Lockdowns.Journal of healthcare leadership · 2025Article
- Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers.International journal of social robotics · 2025Article
- The effects of listening on speaker and listener while talking about character strengths: an open science school-wide collaboration.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Attitudes in an interpersonal context: Psychological safety as a route to attitude change.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Memories of rejection contribute to feeling lonely. However, high-quality listening that conveys well-meaning attention and understanding when speakers discuss social rejection may help them to reconnect. Speakers may experience less loneliness because they feel close and connected (relatedness) to the listener and because listening supports self-congruent expression (autonomy). Five experiments (total
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