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Article: Rejecting another pains the self: The impact of perceived future rejection

TitleRejecting another pains the self: The impact of perceived future rejection
Authors
KeywordsEvaluative concern
Fear of negative evaluation
Painful feeling
Rejection
Issue Date2014
PublisherAcademic Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jesp
Citation
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2014, v. 50 n. 1, p. 225-233 How to Cite?
AbstractThe current investigation examined whether people would experience a higher level of pain after rejecting another person, especially for those high in evaluative concern, through increased perceptions of future rejection. Three experiments provide converging support to these predictions. After reliving a past rejecting experience (Experiments 1 and 2) and concurrently rejecting another person (Experiment 3), the source of rejection experienced a higher level of pain than participants in the control conditions. We also found that evaluative concern, either primed (Experiment 2) or measured (Experiment 3) moderated the above effect, such that this effect was only observed among participants high in evaluative concern, but not among those low in evaluative concern. Moreover, perceived future rejection mediated the moderating effect of evaluative concern and rejecting another person on the levels of pain that people experience (Experiment 3). These findings contribute to the literature by showing a mechanism explaining why rejecting another person pains the self and who are more susceptible to this influence.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/193972
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dc.contributor.authorChen, Zen_US
dc.contributor.authorPoon, KTen_US
dc.contributor.authorBernstein, MJen_US
dc.contributor.authorTeng, Fen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-28T06:39:16Z-
dc.date.available2014-01-28T06:39:16Z-
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2014, v. 50 n. 1, p. 225-233en_US
dc.identifier.issn0022-1031-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/193972-
dc.description.abstractThe current investigation examined whether people would experience a higher level of pain after rejecting another person, especially for those high in evaluative concern, through increased perceptions of future rejection. Three experiments provide converging support to these predictions. After reliving a past rejecting experience (Experiments 1 and 2) and concurrently rejecting another person (Experiment 3), the source of rejection experienced a higher level of pain than participants in the control conditions. We also found that evaluative concern, either primed (Experiment 2) or measured (Experiment 3) moderated the above effect, such that this effect was only observed among participants high in evaluative concern, but not among those low in evaluative concern. Moreover, perceived future rejection mediated the moderating effect of evaluative concern and rejecting another person on the levels of pain that people experience (Experiment 3). These findings contribute to the literature by showing a mechanism explaining why rejecting another person pains the self and who are more susceptible to this influence.en_US
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherAcademic Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jesp-
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Experimental Social Psychologyen_US
dc.rightsNOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2014, v. 50 n. 1, p. 225-233. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.10.007-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectEvaluative concern-
dc.subjectFear of negative evaluation-
dc.subjectPainful feeling-
dc.subjectRejection-
dc.titleRejecting another pains the self: The impact of perceived future rejectionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.emailChen, Z: chenz@hku.hken_US
dc.identifier.authorityChen, Z=rp00629en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jesp.2013.10.007-
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dc.identifier.hkuros227484en_US
dc.identifier.volume50en_US
dc.identifier.issue1-
dc.identifier.spage225en_US
dc.identifier.epage233en_US
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000329951700025-
dc.publisher.placeUnited States-
dc.identifier.issnl0022-1031-

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