Despite the rich literature on implicit partner evaluations, there has been scant attention to a
defining feature of significant other mental representations—their affective complexity …

Cyberball, the paradigm developed by Kipling D. Williams and colleagues to study
ostracism, initially counted three experimental conditions: inclusion, exclusion, and …

How does a person's smell affect others' impressions of them? Most body odor research
asks perceivers to make social judgments based on armpit sweat without perfume or …

Background Being socially excluded has detrimental effects, with prolonged exclusion
linked to loneliness and social isolation. Social disconnection interventions that do not …

One of the defining features of human experience is the formation and maintenance of
affiliative and attachment ties. As these ties offer numerous adaptive advantages, human …

For social species, having strong and high-quality social relationships is an important safety
cue. Loneliness occurs when an individual perceives they have insufficient relationships …

The current work quantitatively explored whether the explanation for overinclusion
moderates its effect. In Study 1, female participants were excluded, included, or …

Although theories of personality and human behavior have long assumed that the self is
affectively complex, widely used indirect measures of implicit self-evaluations have largely …

A novel sensor was developed which measures water conductivity by tracking the
capacitance of two insulated probes submerged in the water under test. Unlike commercially …

Because belonging is a fundamental human need (Baumeister & Leary, 1995), individuals
possess a belonging regulatory system devoted to maintaining stable levels of social …