Journal
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 34-42Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0956797615607205
Keywords
affiliation; cultural learning; imitation; ostracism; ritual; social convention; social groups; Cyberball
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- United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council [RES-060-25-0085]
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/I005455/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/I005455/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The Cyberball paradigm was used to examine the hypothesis that children use high-fidelity imitation as a reinclusion behavior in response to being ostracized by in-group members. Children (N = 176; 5- to 6-year-olds) were either included or excluded by in- or out-group members and then shown a video of an in-group or an out-group member enacting a social convention. Participants who were excluded by their in-group engaged in higher-fidelity imitation than those who were included by their in-group. Children who were included by an out-group and those who were excluded by an out-group showed no difference in imitative fidelity. Children ostracized by in-group members also displayed increased anxiety relative to children ostracized by out-group members. The data are consistent with the proposal that high-fidelity imitation functions as reinclusion behavior in the context of in-group ostracism.
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