Selma C. Rudert is Junior Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany. In her research, Selma C. Rudert investigates social group processes with a specific focus on social exclusion in groups.

Rainer Greifeneder is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His research focuses on various aspects of social cognition, such as the experienced ease or difficulty of thinking, or how individuals construe, experience, and react to social exclusion.

Kipling D. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, USA. His research focuses on ostracism, social influence, and intragroup processes.

Contributors

1 Understanding common and diverse forms of social exclusion

Eric D. Wesselmann, Corinna Michels, and Alison Slaughter

2 Social ostracism as a factor motivating interest in extreme groups

Kipling D. Williams, Andrew H. Hales, and Corinna Michels

3 About flames and boogeymen: social norms affect individuals' construal of social exclusion

Rainer Greifeneder and Selma C. Rudert

4 Exclusion and its impact on social information processing

Heather M. Claypool and Michael J. Bernstein

5 Dealing with social exclusion: an analysis of psychological strategies

Susanna Timeo, Paolo Riva, and Maria Paola Paladino

6 How self-talk promotes self-regulation: implications for coping with emotional pain

Ariana Orvell and Ethan Kross

7 Hurt feelings: physical pain, social exclusion, and the psychology of pain overlap

Laura J. Ferris

8 Physiostracism: a case for non-invasive measures of arousal in ostracism research

Ilja van Beest and Willem Sleegers

9 Observing ostracism: how observers interpret and respond to ostracism situations

Selma C. Rudert and Rainer Greifeneder

10 Workplace ostracism: what's it good for?

Sandra L. Robinson and Kira Schabram

11 Moralization as legitimization for ostracism: effects on intergroup dynamics and social cohesion

Susanne Täuber

12 Rejection sensitivity as a determinant of well-being during reentry

Michael J. Naft and Geraldine Downey

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