Author : Richard Pond
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832536360
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)
Book Synopsis The Emotional Antecedents and Consequences of Social Rejection by : Richard Pond
Download or read book The Emotional Antecedents and Consequences of Social Rejection written by Richard Pond and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans are social animals. Our need to belong is a cross-cultural human universal. When our desire for social connection is frustrated, we can suffer from a host of harmful psychological and physiological consequences. As a result, social rejection can be an extremely aversive experience that can be strategically employed to inflict harm/punishment (e.g., relational aggression). Social rejection has both emotional antecedents and consequences. That is, social rejection can be elicited by emotions (e.g., anger, disgust, etc.) within the rejecter and can evoke emotional reactions within the rejected (e.g., anger, sadness, etc.). Thus, the role that emotion plays in social rejection is not simple. It is multifaceted. Negative emotions such as anger and disgust can provoke social rejection and, reciprocally, they can evoke negative emotions in those who are socially rejected. Positive emotions, however, may act as a buffer or shield that insulates us from the deleterious consequences of rejection.