The pain of rejection is often tied to the way that we interpret how another person thinks or
feels about us. In this review, we explore evidence from the current literature to examine the …

Achieving social acceptance and avoiding rejection by peers are strong motivational goals
during development, particularly during the period of adolescence (Sebastian et al., 2010) …

Social exclusion elicits powerful feelings of negative affect associated with rejection.
Additionally, experiencing social exclusion reliably recruits neural circuitry associated with …

A large database documents the role of inflammatory processes in the development of
neuropsychiatric symptom dimensions that are common to multiple psychiatric conditions …

INTRODUCTION: This research investigates social work interventions available for Social
Workers based in primary schools in Aotearoa New Zealand, to address surplus suffering …

Peer aggression can take the form of physical hostility, adverse peer pressure, teasing,
shunning, and social rejection (Little, 2002). Repeated acts of peer aggression are …

Autistic people frequently experience negative judgements from non-autistic people, often
fuelled by misconceptions that autistic people lack empathy. Understanding responses to …

The striatum represents the main input station for cortical afferent connections within cortico-
basal ganglia-thalamic circuits. These have been detailed in non-human primates and …

The virtual school environment has been developed and validated by the Computational
Neuropsychology and Simulation (CNS) Laboratory of Dr. Thomas Parsons. The …

Witnessing social exclusion elicits an experience of vicarious ostracism, enhanced in those
with high trait empathy. Across four studies this thesis examines associations between …