Ostracism via virtual chat room - Effects on basic needs, anger and pain
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2017
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Donate A.P.G.
Marques L.M.
Lapenta O.M.
Asthana M.K.
Amodio D.
Boggio P.S.
Marques L.M.
Lapenta O.M.
Asthana M.K.
Amodio D.
Boggio P.S.
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© 2017 Donate et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Ostracism is characterized by a social pain provoked by being excluded and ignored. In order to address the effects of social ostracism in virtual non-physical interactions, we developed a more realistic paradigm as an alternative to Cyberball and assessed its effects on participant’s expression of basic social needs, emotional experience and painful feeling. The chat room consisted of controlled social dialogue interactions between participants and two other (confederate) chat room partners. Exclusion was manipulated by varying the number of messages a participant received (15% and 33% in exclusion and inclusion, respectively). Analysis of participant (N = 54) responses revealed that exclusion induced a lower experience of basic-need states and greater anger, compared with included participants. In addition, excluded participants reported higher levels of two specific self-pain feelings, namely tortured and hurt. Our findings suggest that this procedure is effective in inducing social ostracism in a realistic and yet highly controlled experimental procedure.
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Adolescent , Adult , Anger , Communication , Emotions , Female , Humans , Social Distance , Social Media , Young Adult