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The detection of social exclusion: Evolution and beyond.

Kerr, Norbert L., Levine, John M. (2008) The detection of social exclusion: Evolution and beyond. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 12 (1). pp. 39-52. ISSN 1089-2699. (doi:10.1037/1089-2699.12.1.39) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:41674)

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Abstract

This article analyzes how humans detect threats to social inclusion. The authors begin by noting the likely evolutionary roots of (a) the human sensitivity to threats of both interpersonal and group exclusion and (b) the nature of the primitive system that humans developed for detecting such threats. The authors then propose seven generic classes of signals (hurting, avoiding, exploiting, deregulating, disengaging, differentiating, and slandering) that modern humans use in detecting exclusion and compare our taxonomy to prior empirical attempts to identify rejection cues. Finally, the authors offer a preliminary model of how the modern sociometer operates, emphasizing the importance of behavioral expectations and attribution processes, and discuss open questions suggested by our analysis.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1037/1089-2699.12.1.39
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: M.L. Barnoux
Date Deposited: 01 Jul 2014 16:56 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:16 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/41674 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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