The present study aimed to examine differences in three psychological constructs
(satisfaction with life, loneliness, and helplessness) among adults experiencing ghosting …

A growing body of research has pinpointed the consequences as well as mechanisms of
phubbing. However, few studies have explored the relationship between peer phubbing and …

Feeling ostracised, that is, feeling ignored and excluded, in a social media environment
causes negative affect and threatens fundamental human needs. Socially anxious people …

Social stress can emerge from situational as well as dispositional factors. Here we tested in
direct juxtaposition how ostracism in a Cyberball game and underlying psychopathology …

The current research examined the hypothesis that observing another person experiencing
ostracism would increase physical pain, social pain, and negative emotion, as well as impair …

(1) Background: Many studies have used a well-known social exclusion task, namely
Cyberball, to assess the psychophysiological reactions to ostracism in laboratory settings …

Objectives Patients with psychosomatic disorders suffer from social isolation that might
further lead to destabilization and exacerbation of bodily symptoms via autonomic pathways …

With advances in digital technology, physical and virtual spaces have gradually merged. For
digitally disadvantaged groups, this transformation is both convenient and potentially …

This study employed the Cyberball paradigm, to investigate the impact of ostracism on need
satisfaction in 84 Italian students aged 11 to 14. Believing they were playing with …

Previous studies in humans have shown that brain regions activating social exclusion
overlap with those related to attention. However, in the context of social exclusion, how does …