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SUBMITTER: Kiat JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10859167 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kiat John E JE Cheadle Jacob E JE Goosby Bridget J BJ
International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology 20171115
The importance of understanding how we anticipate and prepare for social rejection is underscored by the mental and physical toll of continual social vigilance. In this study, we investigate the impact of social rejection on anticipatory attentional processes using the well-known Cyberball task, a paradigm in which participants engage in a game of catch with virtual avatars who after an initial period of fair-play (inclusion condition) then exclude the participant from the game (exclusion condit ...[more]