Terrizzi John A, Pond Richard S, Shannon Trevor C J, Koopman Zachary K, Reich Jessica C
Department of Psychology, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX, United States.
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jun 16;14:1141100. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1141100. eCollection 2023.
The need to belong is a fundamental aspect of human nature. Over the past two decades, researchers have uncovered many harmful effects of social rejection. However, less work has examined the emotional antecedents to rejection. The purpose of the present article was to explore how disgust--an emotion linked to avoidance and social withdrawal--serves as an important antecedent to social rejection. We argue that disgust affects social rejection through three routes. First, disgust encourages stigmatization, especially of those who exhibit cues of infectious disease. Second, disgust and disease-avoidance give rise to cultural variants (e.g., socially conservative values and assortative sociality), which mitigate social interaction. Third, when the self is perceived as a source of contamination, it promotes shame, which, subsequently, encourages withdrawal from social interaction. Directions for future research are also discussed.
归属需求是人性的一个基本方面。在过去二十年里,研究人员发现了社会排斥的许多有害影响。然而,较少有研究探讨排斥的情感先决条件。本文的目的是探讨厌恶——一种与回避和社交退缩相关的情绪——如何作为社会排斥的一个重要先决条件。我们认为,厌恶通过三条途径影响社会排斥。首先,厌恶会促使产生污名化,尤其是对那些表现出传染病迹象的人。其次,厌恶和疾病回避会导致文化变体(例如社会保守价值观和选择性社交),从而减少社会互动。第三,当自我被视为污染源时,会引发羞耻感,进而促使人们退出社会互动。本文还讨论了未来的研究方向。