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Image Is Everything: Self-Presentation Following Social Exclusion

Tuscherer, Taylor R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1354562810

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2012, Master of Arts, Miami University, Psychology.
Research on reaffiliation after exclusion has largely focused on how victims identify affiliation candidates rather than how victims engage these candidates. To address this gap, I explored how exclusion victims present themselves to reaffiliation candidates. Following an exclusion, non-social failure, or control manipulation, participants publically rated themselves on socially relevant and irrelevant traits under the belief that they would or would not receive feedback from another participant. I expected that excluded participants would present themselves as more socially competent than would failure or control participants, regardless of whether or not they believed they would receive feedback. Contrary to predictions, participants’ social competency ratings were resistant to influence by either of the experimental manipulations. Excluded participants with chronic belongingness concerns did tend to present themselves as more socially competent than their control counterparts, however. Potential explanations for unexpected findings and contributions of this work to the social exclusion literature are discussed.
Heather Claypool, PhD (Committee Chair)
Allen McConnell, PhD (Committee Member)
Amy Summerville, PhD (Committee Member)
20 p.
Social Psychology
reaffiliation; rejection; belongingness

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  • Tuscherer, T. R. (2012). Image Is Everything: Self-Presentation Following Social Exclusion [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1354562810

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tuscherer, Taylor. Image Is Everything: Self-Presentation Following Social Exclusion. 2012. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1354562810.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tuscherer, Taylor. "Image Is Everything: Self-Presentation Following Social Exclusion." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1354562810

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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