The social outcast : ostracism, social exclusion, rejection, and bullying / edited by Kipling D. Williams, Joseph P. Forgas, William von Hippel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The social outcast : an overview / Kipling D. Williams, Joseph P. Forgas, William von Hippel and Lisa Zadro -- I. Theoretical foundations -- 2. Ostracism : the indiscriminate early detection system / Kipling D. Williams and Lisa Zadro -- 3. Varieties of interpersonal rejection / Mark R. Leary -- 4. The inner dimension of social exclusion : intelligent thought and self-regulation among rejected persons / Roy F. Baumeister and C. Nathan DeWall -- II. Deep roots of exclusion : neuropsychological substrates of isolation and exclusion -- 5. Adding insult to injury : social pain theory and response to social exclusion / Geoff MacDonald, Rachell Kingsbury and Stephanie Shaw -- 6. People thinking about people : the vicious cycle of being a social outcast in one's own mind / John T. Cacioppo and Louise C. Hawkley -- 7. Why it hurts to be left out : the neurocognitive overlap between physical and social pain / Naomi I. Eisenberger and Matthew D. Lieberman -- III. Individual and population differences and the impact of social exclusion and bullying -- 8. Rejection sensitivity as a predictor of affective and behavioral responses to interpersonal stress : a defensive motivational system / Rainer Romero-Canyas and Geraldine Downey -- 9. The rejected and the bullied : lessons about social misfits from developmental psychology / Jaana Juvonen and Elisheva F. Gross -- 10. Role of social expectancies in cognitive and behavioral responses to social rejection / Kristin L. Sommer and Yonata S. Rubin -- 11. Coping with rejection : core social motives across cultures / Susan T. Fiske and Mariko Yamamoto -- IV. Influences of rejection on emotion, perception, and cognition -- 12. When does social rejection lead to aggression? : the influences of situations, narcissism, emotion, and replenishing connections / Jean M. Twenge -- 13. The social monitoring system : enhanced sensitivity to social cues as an adaptive response to social exclusion / Cynthia L. Pickett and Wendi L. Gardner -- 14. Social snacking and shielding : using social symbols, selves, and surrogates in the service of belonging needs / Wendi L. Gardner, Cynthia L. Pickett and Megan Knowles -- 15. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others : social identity and marginal membership / Michael A. Hogg -- 16. Bye bye, black sheep : the causes and consequences of rejection in family relationships / Julie Fitness -- V. Effects of social exclusion on pro- and anti-social behavior -- 17. Exclusion and nonconscious behavioral mimicry / Jessica L. Lakin and Tanya L. Chartrand -- 18. The effect of rejection on anti-social behaviors : social exclusion produces aggressive behaviors / Kathleen R. Catanese and Dianne M. Tice -- 19. Rejection and entitativity : a synergistic model of mass violence / Lowell Gaertner and Jonathan Iuzzini -- 20. Avoiding the social death penalty : ostracism and cooperation in social dilemmas / Jaap W. Ouwerkerk, Norbert L. Kerr, Marcello Gallucci and Paul A. M. Van Lange -- 21. The psychological impact and social isolation : discussion and commentary / Marilynn B. Brewer.

"This book focuses on the ubiquitous and powerful effects of ostracism, social exclusion, rejection, and bullying. Human beings are an intrinsically gregarious species. Most of our evolutionary success, no doubt, is due to our highly developed ability to cooperate and interact with each other. Thus, it is not surprising that instances of interpersonal rejection and social exclusion would have an enormously detrimental impact on the individual. Until 10 years ago, however, social psychology regarded ostracism, rejection, and social exclusion as merely outcomes to be avoided, but very little was known about their antecedents and consequences, and about the processes involved when they occurred." "Understanding how people related to each other, why they choose to exclude others, and how and why individuals and groups respond as they do to acts of rejection and exclusion has never been of greater importance than today. Acts of exclusion have been linked to depression, alienation, suicide, and mass killings. Marginalization leads people to seek stronger bonds with fringe elements, thus creating more opportunities for anti-social behaviors." "The main objective of this book is to explore the powerful consequences of being socially outcast at the neurophysiological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral levels. The contributors offer integrative theories that encapsulate the experience of ostracism, exclusion, and rejection. Several chapters explore the role of individual differences in how people respond to exclusion, and the role of social exclusion in triggering adaptive, pro-social or dysfunctional, anti-social behaviors is discussed." "The book is written in a readable yet scholarly style, and researchers, practitioners, and students at both the undergraduate and graduate level should find it an engaging overview of the field. It can be used as a core textbook in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses dealing with social exclusion, and should be of particular interest to practitioners and researchers in applied areas such as clinical, counseling, health, and organizational psychology where the real-life antecedents and consequences of social exclusion are of vital interest."--BOOK JACKET.

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