Effect of Rejection Sensitivity on the selective attention following ambiguous rejections

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  • 拒絶感受性が他者からの曖昧な拒絶後の選択的注意に及ぼす影響
  • キョゼツ カンジュセイ ガ タシャ カラ ノ アイマイ ナ キョゼツ ゴ ノ センタクテキ チュウイ ニ オヨボス エイキョウ

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It has been demonstrated that after an experience of being rejected, individuals pay increased attention to smiles, because of their fundamental need to belong (DeWall et al., 2009). Other research suggests that people with high rejection sensitivity tend to avoid attending faces showing rejection (Berenson et al., 2009). Rejection sensitivity is the disposition to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely react to experiences of being rejected. Do rejection sensitive people also attend to a smile after experiencing an ambiguous rejection? In this study, we use the dot-probe task and examined the following predictions after an ambiguous rejection: highly rejection sensitive people would pay attention to (i) a smiling face, or (ii) disgust face. Contrary to these predictions, results indicated that in control condition, in which there was no rejection, highly rejection sensitive people highly attended only to the disgust faces. On the other hand, in the ambiguous rejection condition, selective attention was not affected by rejection sensitivity. We have discussed the relationship between rejection sensitivity and inappropriate reactions.

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  • 対人社会心理学研究

    対人社会心理学研究 15 39-44, 2015

    大阪大学大学院人間科学研究科対人社会心理学研究室

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