I don't know the methodological details of the following study but is
worth discussing.
David
Social Exclusion Impairs Self-Regulation
Roy F. Baumeister
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6X01-4FVH0WY-
1&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F2005&_alid=263529320&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_
qd=1&_cdi=7201&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000023959&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&
_userid=496749&md5=08e20a24322#aff1> a,
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6X01-4FVH0WY-
1&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F2005&_alid=263529320&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_
qd=1&_cdi=7201&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000023959&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&
_userid=496749&md5=08e20a24322#cor1> Corresponding Author Contact
Information, <mailto:baumeister@darwin.psy.fsu.edu> E-mail The
Corresponding Author, C. Nathan DeWall
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6X01-4FVH0WY-
1&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F2005&_alid=263529320&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_
qd=1&_cdi=7201&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000023959&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&
_userid=496749&md5=08e20a24322#aff1> a, Natalie J. Ciarocco
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6X01-4FVH0WY-
1&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F2005&_alid=263529320&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_
qd=1&_cdi=7201&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000023959&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&
_userid=496749&md5=08e20a24322#aff2> b and Jean M. Twenge
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6X01-4FVH0WY-
1&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F2005&_alid=263529320&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_
qd=1&_cdi=7201&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000023959&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&
_userid=496749&md5=08e20a24322#aff3> c
aDepartment of Psychology, Florida State University
bDepartment of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University
cDepartment of Psychology, San Diego State University
Received 23 November 2003; revised 7 September 2004; accepted 8
September 2004. Available online 2 April 2005.
Six experiments showed that being excluded or rejected caused decrements
in self-regulation. In Experiment 1, participants who were led to
anticipate a lonely future life were less able to make themselves
consume a healthy but bad-tasting beverage. In Experiment 2, some
participants were told that no one else in their group wanted to work
with them, and these participants later ate more cookies than other
participants. In Experiment 3, excluded participants quit sooner on a
frustrating task. In Experiments 4-6, exclusion led to impairment of
attention regulation as measured with a dichotic listening task.
Experiments 5 and 6 further showed that decrements in self-regulation
can be eliminated by offering a cash incentive or increasing
self-awareness. Thus, rejected people are capable of self-regulation but
are normally disinclined to make the effort.
David Preiss
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile: <http://www.puc.cl/>
www.puc.cl
PACE Center at Yale University: <http://www.yale.edu/pace>
www.yale.edu/pace
Homepage: <http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ddp6/>
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ddp6/
Phone: 56-2-3544605
Fax: 56-2-354-4844
E-mail: <mailto:david.preiss@yale.edu> david.preiss@yale.edu,
davidpreiss@puc.cl
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun May 01 2005 - 01:00:06 PDT