Does It Matter What I Say? Using Language to Examine Reactions to Ostracism as It Occurs
| Autor: | Klauke, Fabian, Kauffeld, Simone |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Self-focus
victim derogation language Liwc lcsh:BF1-990 LIWC Victim Derogation Pronoun Use Article Ostracism self-focus ostracism lcsh:Psychology ddc:1 ddc:15 Psychology Veröffentlichung der TU Braunschweig pronoun use Publikationsfonds der TU Braunschweig General Psychology ddc:4 Language Original Research |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 11 (2020) Frontiers in psychology, 12 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.558069--Front Psychol--https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1525/--http://www.frontiersin.org/Language_Sciences--http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?2563826--1664-1078--1664-1078 |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.558069 |
| Popis: | Most of our knowledge related to how social exclusion affects those who ostracize and those who are being ostracized is based on questionnaires administered after the ostracism situation is over. In this research, we strived to further our understanding of the internal dynamics of an ostracism situation. We therefore examined individuals' language-specifically, function words-as a behavior indicative of psychological processes and emergent states that can be unobtrusively recorded right in the situation. In online chats, 128 participants talked about a personal topic in groups of three. In the experimental group (n = 79), two conversation partners ignored every contribution by the third. We found that, compared to the control group, these targets of ostracism used language indicative of a self-focus and worsened mood, but not of social focus or positivity, although positivity was related to a writer's likeability. Sources of ostracism used language suggesting that they were distancing themselves from the situation, and they further engaged in victim derogation. We discuss how our results highlight the severity and potential self-sustainability of ostracism. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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