Just you and I: The role of social exclusion in the formation of interpersonal relationships

Wyer, Natalie A.; Schenke, Kimberley Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2016.02.007

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“…Together, the results of experiments 1 and 2 reveal that social exclusion not only has a negative effect on the victims but also has an effect on the forced rejecters. These findings are consistent with some previous research (Legate et al, 2013 ; Chen et al, 2014 ; Wyer and Schenke, 2016 ). In the voluntary rejecter group, the score of meaning in life has no significant difference from the control group; however, they were significantly higher than this of the forced rejecter group.…”

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“…We note that previous studies have produced inconsistent results about the effects of social exclusion on the rejecter (perpetrators of exclusion). Some studies suggest that social exclusion has a positive effect on the rejecter, such as making the relationship among rejecters closer and stronger (Wyer and Schenke, 2016 ). Other studies suggested that social exclusion not only hurts victims but also drives painful feelings in rejecters (Chen et al, 2014 ).…”

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Almost Everyone Loses Meaning in Life From Social Exclusion, but Some More Than the Others: A Comparison Among Victims, Voluntary, and Forced Rejecters

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Social exclusion has been a major societal concern because it hinders the attainment of needs for belonging and relationship. While we know much about the effects of social exclusion on victims and perpetrators, there is limited insight regarding how different types of rejecters (voluntary vs. forced) might affect important outcomes. The purpose of this study is to bridge this gap and to examine how different types of social exclusion (forced and voluntary) influence meaning in the life of participants. To this end, we conducted two experiments using two social exclusion paradigms: the recall paradigm and the Cyberball game. The results of the two experiments were consistent. Both experiments revealed that (1) the meaning in the life of the victim group and the forced rejecter group (i.e., those who were forced to exclude others) was significantly lower than this of the control group and the voluntary rejecter group (i.e., those choosing to exclude others). There were no significant differences between the victim group and the forced rejecter group, and there were no significant differences between the voluntary rejecter group and the control group. These results reveal that social exclusion not only negatively affects the victims of exclusion but also reduces the meaning in the life of forced rejecters. These findings are specific, and they show that the types of will in exclusion can create differences in the effects of social exclusion on the rejecters.

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Almost Everyone Loses Meaning in Life From Social Exclusion, but Some More Than the Others: A Comparison Among Victims, Voluntary, and Forced Rejecters

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“…Zadro et al (2005) found that when two actors excluded a target from their conversation, they experienced a stronger sense of belongingness to one another. This finding is further validated by two follow-up studies that have found that actors who ostracize a common target tend to build an in-group bond and like each other (Poulsen & Kashy, 2012) and to perceive themselves as closer and more similar to one another (Wyer & Schenke, 2016). Similar relational benefits have been found with gossip, whereby actors build stronger positive relationships by gossiping about a common target.…”

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What Happens to Bad Actors in Organizations? A Review of Actor-Centric Outcomes of Negative Behavior

Zhong

Robinson

2020

Journal of Management

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Negative workplace behavior has received substantial research attention over the past several decades. Although we have learned a lot about the consequences of negative behavior for its victims and third-party observers, a less understood but equally important research question pertains to the consequences for bad actors: How does engaging in negative behavior impact one’s thoughts, feelings, and subsequent behaviors? Moreover, do organizational members experience costs or benefits from engaging in negative acts? We address these questions with an integrative review of empirical findings on various actor-centric consequences of a wide range of negative behaviors. We organize these findings into five dominant theoretical perspectives: affective, psychological-needs, relational, psychological-resources, and cognitive-dissonance perspectives. For each perspective, we provide an overview of the theoretical arguments, summarize findings of relevant studies underlying it, and discuss observed patterns and contradictory findings. By doing so, we provide a very tentative answer to our initial questions, contending that engaging in negative acts is a two-edged sword for actors and its costs seem to slightly prevail over its benefits. Nevertheless, we make this preliminary conclusion based upon an incomplete knowledge base. In order to further our understanding of actor-centric outcomes of negative behavior, we also identify several important research gaps and needed future research directions.

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“…Future research could investigate whether and how relationship expectations are structurally embedded, detect the different roles that network members play in terms of in-and exclusion, or analyse the relational benefits that exclusion implies for the excluders (cf. Wyer & Schenke, 2016). We hope that this thematic issue inspires readers to take up such research.…”

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In Good Company? Personal Relationships, Network Embeddedness, and Social Inclusion

Lubbers

2021

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How do individuals’ networks of personal relationships affect their social in‐ and exclusion? Researchers have shown that micro‐level, informal relationships can be highly consequential for social inclusion, but in complex, contradictory ways: Personal networks reflect the degree of relational exclusion and protect against (other forms of) exclusion, but they also erode in conditions of exclusion and reproduce exclusion. While network researchers have widely studied some of these mechanisms, they have yet to embrace others. Therefore, this thematic issue reconsiders the complex relationship between personal networks and social inclusion. It offers a unique vantage point by bringing together researchers who work with different marginalised social groups, typically studied separately: refugees, transnational migrants, indigenous people, older people, people experiencing poverty, LGBT people, and women who have experienced domestic violence. This combination allows us to detect commonalities and differences in network functioning across historically excluded groups. This editorial lays the theoretical groundwork for the thematic issue and discusses the key contributions of the seventeen articles that compose the issue. We call for more attention to relationship expectations, the reciprocity of support flows, and contextual embeddedness, and question universally adopted theoretical binaries such as that of bonding and bridging social capital.

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Just you and I: The role of social exclusion in the formation of interpersonal relationships

Cited by 8 publications

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Almost Everyone Loses Meaning in Life From Social Exclusion, but Some More Than the Others: A Comparison Among Victims, Voluntary, and Forced Rejecters

Almost Everyone Loses Meaning in Life From Social Exclusion, but Some More Than the Others: A Comparison Among Victims, Voluntary, and Forced Rejecters

What Happens to Bad Actors in Organizations? A Review of Actor-Centric Outcomes of Negative Behavior

In Good Company? Personal Relationships, Network Embeddedness, and Social Inclusion

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