Getting a Cue: The Need to Belong and Enhanced Sensitivity to Social Cues

By Cynthia Pickett, W. Gardner, Megan L. Knowles. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2004

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Adolescent risk-taking in the context of exploration and social influence (2021, background): “When adolescents find themselves observed by others, they more often anticipate negative outcomes, like being rejected or embarrassed than children or adults (Crone & Konijn, 2018; Pickett et al., 2004; Rodman et al., 2017; Somerville et al., 2013).”
Show Me the Honey! Effects of Social Exclusion on Financial Risk-Taking (2013, methodology): “As in study 2, under the pretense of a memory experiment, we invited participants to recall a social experience where they felt either included or excluded (Mead et al. 2011; Pickett et al. 2004).”
A preference for genuine smiles following social exclusion (2010, background): “Examining these findings vis-à-vis Williams’ (2007) model, which suggests that threats to relational needs are good predictors of pro-social and affiliative responses whereas threats to efficacy needs result in more antisocial and self-focused responses, reveals that the current evidence is congruen”
Ostracism: The Kiss of Social Death (2007, neutral): “They are also more tuned into social/emotional inconsistencies ( Pickett, Gardner, & Knowles, 2004 ).”
The Avatars in the Machine : Dreaming as a Simulation of Social Reality (2015, background): “…that feeds forward information about our level of social inclusion in the form of self-esteem or self-worth (Leary et al. 1998), whereas the social monitoring system is purported to guide the processing of social information whenever people’s needs to belong are not being met (Pickett et al. 2004).”