Advertisers have begun to recognize the role of inclusive advertising in consumer well-
being. One way to increase inclusivity is to minimize experiences of exclusion using …

In this chapter, we give an overview of research on strategies that help cope with or buffer
against the negative psychological consequences of social exclusion. Coping strategies are …

Although the idea of human beings being primarily and inextricably social has strong
support in the psychological literature, an examination of how human beings actually …

Introduction Social-media can contribute to building up adolescents' relationships, but they
might also bring negative exclusionary experiences. Being excluded is a subtle yet hurtful …

Recent research has demonstrated that cultural groups differ in how they experience
ostracism and in how they behave in the wake of being ostracized. We review this literature …

Humans can fulfill their social needs with fictional and non-living entities that act as social
surrogates. Though recent research demonstrates that social surrogates have beneficial …

The concept of parasocial interaction refers to audience members interacting with media
personae as they would in face-to-face interactions, or, in the words of Horton and Wohl …

Much is known about when children acquire an understanding of mental states, but few, if
any, experiments identify social contexts in which children tend to use this capacity and …

In the Internet age, people who feel alone can use online social media to restore a sense of
social connectedness. In the present experiment, participants were either excluded or …

Surprisingly, oxytocin, a socially potent neuropeptide, has not been found to affect
responses to ostracism. However, these effects may depend on individual differences …