This meta-analysis reviews 208 laboratory studies of acute psychological stressors and tests
a theoretical model delineating conditions capable of eliciting cortisol responses …

In this review, I examine the social psychological research on ostracism, social exclusion,
and rejection. Being ignored, excluded, and/or rejected signals a threat for which reflexive …

We examined 120 Cyberball studies (N= 11,869) to determine the effect size of ostracism
and conditions under which the effect may be reversed, eliminated, or small. Our analyses …

Ostracism means being ignored and excluded by one or more others. Despite the absence
of verbal derogation and physical assault, ostracism is painful: It threatens psychological …

You are about to begin a fascinating journey over the last 100 years. This book describes
various ideas that psychologists and other scientists have advanced to explain the human …

Ostracism is such a widely used and powerful tactic that the authors tested whether people
would be affected by it even under remote and artificial circumstances. In Study 1, 1,486 …

The phenomenon of ostracism has received considerable empirical attention in the last 15
years, in part because of a revitalized interest in the importance of belonging for human …

This article describes a new model that provides a framework for understanding people's
reactions to threats to social acceptance and belonging as they occur in the context of …

Social exclusion was manipulated by telling people that they would end up alone later in life
or that other participants had rejected them. These manipulations caused participants to …

Terror management theory (TMT; J. Greenberg, T. Pyszczynski, & S. Solomon, 1986) posits
that people are motivated to pursue positive self-evaluations because self-esteem provides …