ENG 015

How does social exclusion affect people’s physical and emotional state? Bernstein, M. J., & Claypool, H. M. (2012a). Social exclusion and pain sensitivity: Why exclusion sometimes hurts and sometimes numbs. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 185-196. In this article, Bernstein and Claypool conclude that physical and emotional pain are intertwined with one another. They state, “ An experience that triggers physical pain should be accompanied by an emotionally painful reaction, whereas physically numbing experiences should co-occur with emotional numbness.” On the flip side, people who naturally have a low pain tolerance will also feel an equally emotionally painful reaction. In most cases, they find that following social exclusion not only do individuals have higher pain insensitivity, they also become emotionless and lethargic. Narayanan et al., 2013 J. Narayanan, K. Tai, Z. Kinias Power motivates interpersonal connection following social exclusion Organ...

When providing feedback for my ACURA project, most people thought it would be a good idea if I specifically focused on one age group affected by social exclusion. I realized that although the research I did consisted of experiments between people ages eighteen to twenty-four, I failed to mention that in my project. Although there are many articles on social exclusion, there are not many on specific age groups. There are also not many articles on the effect of social exclusion in romantic relationships; therefore, I have decided to change my research question to: How does social exclusion affect internal processes? Is the effect on children different? I have also realized that some of my research articles such as: decreased interoceptive accuracy following social exclusion, references my ACURA professor, Michael J. Bernstein's article: Social exclusion and pain sensitivity: why exclusion sometimes hurts and sometimes numbs.  Keywords: social exclusion, rejection, power, connec...