Do targets of ostracism truthfully communicate their emotional reactions to sources?
Ostracism triggers negative emotions such as sadness, anger, and hurt feelings. Do targets of ostracism truthfully share their emotions with the sources of ostracism? Drawing on past research on social-functional accounts of emotions and interpersonal emotion regulation, we investigated the possibil...
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| author | Erdem O. Meral Dongning Ren Yvette van Osch Eric van Dijk Ilja van Beest |
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| description | Ostracism triggers negative emotions such as sadness, anger, and hurt feelings. Do targets of ostracism truthfully share their emotions with the sources of ostracism? Drawing on past research on social-functional accounts of emotions and interpersonal emotion regulation, we investigated the possibility that targets may misrepresent their emotions (i.e., gaming emotions). We conducted three experiments (N = 1058; two pre-registered) using an online ball-tossing game, in which participants were randomly assigned to be included or ostracized. Consistent with the literature, we found that ostracized individuals were more hurt, sad, and angry than included individuals. However, we found little and inconsistent evidence that ostracized (vs included) individuals misrepresented their emotional reactions to the sources. Further, Bayesian analyses offered more support against misrepresentation of emotions. These findings suggest that targets of ostracism truthfully communicated their social pain to the sources. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1f97a6d1998c44aba96c15219568768a2023-06-22T05:02:16ZengElsevierActa Psychologica0001-69182023-07-01237103956Do targets of ostracism truthfully communicate their emotional reactions to sources?Erdem O. Meral0Dongning Ren1Yvette van Osch2Eric van Dijk3Ilja van Beest4Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands; Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Corresponding author at: Psychology Department, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 15919, 1001 NK Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the NetherlandsNetherlands Labor Authority, The Hague, the NetherlandsSocial, Economic and Organizational Psychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, the NetherlandsDepartment of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the NetherlandsOstracism triggers negative emotions such as sadness, anger, and hurt feelings. Do targets of ostracism truthfully share their emotions with the sources of ostracism? Drawing on past research on social-functional accounts of emotions and interpersonal emotion regulation, we investigated the possibility that targets may misrepresent their emotions (i.e., gaming emotions). We conducted three experiments (N = 1058; two pre-registered) using an online ball-tossing game, in which participants were randomly assigned to be included or ostracized. Consistent with the literature, we found that ostracized individuals were more hurt, sad, and angry than included individuals. However, we found little and inconsistent evidence that ostracized (vs included) individuals misrepresented their emotional reactions to the sources. Further, Bayesian analyses offered more support against misrepresentation of emotions. These findings suggest that targets of ostracism truthfully communicated their social pain to the sources.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691823001324OstracismEmotionsStrategic communicationGaming emotionsCyberball |
| spellingShingle | Erdem O. Meral Dongning Ren Yvette van Osch Eric van Dijk Ilja van Beest Do targets of ostracism truthfully communicate their emotional reactions to sources? Acta Psychologica Ostracism Emotions Strategic communication Gaming emotions Cyberball |
| title | Do targets of ostracism truthfully communicate their emotional reactions to sources? |
| title_full | Do targets of ostracism truthfully communicate their emotional reactions to sources? |
| title_fullStr | Do targets of ostracism truthfully communicate their emotional reactions to sources? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do targets of ostracism truthfully communicate their emotional reactions to sources? |
| title_short | Do targets of ostracism truthfully communicate their emotional reactions to sources? |
| title_sort | do targets of ostracism truthfully communicate their emotional reactions to sources |
| topic | Ostracism Emotions Strategic communication Gaming emotions Cyberball |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691823001324 |
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