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What is meant when psychologist describe our "need to belong?"
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a motivation to bond with others in relationships that provide ongoing, positive interactions
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Why have humans evolved the need to belong?
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It enables group survival.
It leads to children. Children are more likely to survive when nurtured by two bonded parents who support one another The parent-child bond protects children who are unlikely to venture far from the parent. |
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What are some examples of our need to belong?
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University students spend 28% of the time talking.
Relationships, real or hoped for, dominate our thinking and spending. The pain caused by the death of a companion. |
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What is Ostracism? Name examples and its effect.
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acts if excluding or ignoring.
Silent Treatment Avoidance Shunning stress, anxiety, helplessness, depression and lack of worth |
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How have they tested the effects of ostracism?
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Initiated a boll tossing game, slowly excluding one player. Resulted in subject feeling deflated and stressed.
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How are do the ostracized or the excluded react in further lab tests?
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more likely to engage in self-defeating behavior, underperformed on an aptitude test, regulate their behavior less (diet), disparage or deliver a blast of noise to someone who insulted them (aggression).
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How does cyber-ostracism effect a person.
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Williams, Cheung, and Choi (2001): Internet Study
Participants were systematically excluded from a game in which they tossed a virtual flying disk with two other participants. Also caused poorer moods and more likely to conform to others' wrong judgments of a perceptual task (Asch conformity experiments). |
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What did Eisenberger, Lieberman, and Kipling discover when analyzing the ostracized brain?
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Ostracism evokes a brain response similar to that triggered by physical pain.
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"to thwart our deep need to belong is to unsettle our life"
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just a good quote by David G. Myers, writer of the book.
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What "silver lining" did Roy Baumeister (2005) discover in the rejection research
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When recently exluced people experience a safe opportunity to make a new friend, they "seem wiling and even eager to take it."
"If we can promote a more inclusive society, in which more people feel themselves to be accepted as valued members, some of these tragic patterns could be reduced.) |
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Why is Ostracism so devastating?
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it simultaneously threatens four fundamental needs:
Belonging Self-esteem Control Meaningful existence |
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How do people respond to ostracism?
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Efforts to restore the relationship
Withdrawal from the relationship Aggression (sometimes extreme) |
