Ostracized but why? Effects of attributions and empathy on connecting with the socially excluded.
The present research examined people's responses towards others' exclusion experience. The authors predicted that both causal attributions and empathy would mediate whether people affiliate with a victim of an ambiguous exclusion experience. Perceivers observing another's exclusion (r...
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| author | Michael J Bernstein Zhansheng Chen Kai-Tak Poon Jacob A Benfield Henry K S Ng |
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| description | The present research examined people's responses towards others' exclusion experience. The authors predicted that both causal attributions and empathy would mediate whether people affiliate with a victim of an ambiguous exclusion experience. Perceivers observing another's exclusion (relative to inclusion) without clearly announced reasons chose to affiliate with the target and this was mediated by increased external attributions for the exclusion (Studies 1a, 1b, 2). When the attributions people made for the exclusion of a target was experimentally manipulated, internal attributions decreased desire for affiliation relative to external or ambiguous attributions, and this was mediated by differences in empathy for the target (Study 3). Further, external attributions arisen from perceiving a causally unclear exclusion leads to an empathetic response which results in an increased desire to affiliate with the target (Study 4). Future directions on perceptions of those who have been excluded are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5412b11c58384709ae93605cafcdc6192022-12-22T03:30:19ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032018-01-01138e020118310.1371/journal.pone.0201183Ostracized but why? Effects of attributions and empathy on connecting with the socially excluded.Michael J BernsteinZhansheng ChenKai-Tak PoonJacob A BenfieldHenry K S NgThe present research examined people's responses towards others' exclusion experience. The authors predicted that both causal attributions and empathy would mediate whether people affiliate with a victim of an ambiguous exclusion experience. Perceivers observing another's exclusion (relative to inclusion) without clearly announced reasons chose to affiliate with the target and this was mediated by increased external attributions for the exclusion (Studies 1a, 1b, 2). When the attributions people made for the exclusion of a target was experimentally manipulated, internal attributions decreased desire for affiliation relative to external or ambiguous attributions, and this was mediated by differences in empathy for the target (Study 3). Further, external attributions arisen from perceiving a causally unclear exclusion leads to an empathetic response which results in an increased desire to affiliate with the target (Study 4). Future directions on perceptions of those who have been excluded are discussed.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6075751?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Michael J Bernstein Zhansheng Chen Kai-Tak Poon Jacob A Benfield Henry K S Ng Ostracized but why? Effects of attributions and empathy on connecting with the socially excluded. PLoS ONE |
| title | Ostracized but why? Effects of attributions and empathy on connecting with the socially excluded. |
| title_full | Ostracized but why? Effects of attributions and empathy on connecting with the socially excluded. |
| title_fullStr | Ostracized but why? Effects of attributions and empathy on connecting with the socially excluded. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ostracized but why? Effects of attributions and empathy on connecting with the socially excluded. |
| title_short | Ostracized but why? Effects of attributions and empathy on connecting with the socially excluded. |
| title_sort | ostracized but why effects of attributions and empathy on connecting with the socially excluded |
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