Baek Elisa C, Shen Yixuan Lisa, Kim Hairin, Baldina Ekaterina, Chey Jeanyung, Youm Yoosik, Parkinson Carolyn
Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2025 Jan 18;20(1). doi: 10.1093/scan/nsaf067.
Social rejection profoundly affects well-being. How do features of people's real-world social networks relate to responses to social exclusion? People central in social networks-e.g. who have many friends-may be less distressed by exclusion, since they have many sources of support, or more sensitive to it, if they are more attuned to social feedback. We characterized a village's social network; a subset of residents (N = 74) completed a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study involving social exclusion in groups characterized by varying social relationships (spouses, friends, strangers). Highly-central individuals reported greater distress during exclusion by strangers, and their distress ratings scaled with responses in brain regions associated with social pain, negative affect, and mentalizing. Thus, while social connectedness is often considered a protective factor that promotes well-being, these findings suggest a potential ironic effect of social connectedness-vulnerability to distress in particular social contexts. This sensitization to exclusion could constitute an adaptive tendency to promote long-term wellness.
社会排斥会深刻影响幸福感。人们现实世界社交网络的特征如何与对社会排斥的反应相关联？在社交网络中处于核心地位的人——比如有很多朋友的人——可能因排斥而苦恼较少，因为他们有许多支持来源；或者，如果他们对社会反馈更敏感，可能对排斥更敏感。我们描绘了一个村庄的社交网络；一部分居民（N = 74）完成了一项功能性磁共振成像（fMRI）研究，该研究涉及在以不同社会关系（配偶、朋友、陌生人）为特征的群体中进行社会排斥。处于高度核心地位的个体在被陌生人排斥时报告了更大的苦恼，并且他们的苦恼评分与与社会痛苦、负面情绪和心理化相关的脑区反应呈比例关系。因此，虽然社会联结通常被视为促进幸福感的保护因素，但这些发现表明社会联结存在潜在的讽刺性影响——即在特定社会背景下易受苦恼影响。这种对排斥的敏感化可能构成一种促进长期健康的适应性倾向。
