PSYC104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Rejection, Ingroups And Outgroups, Ostracism
10 May 2018
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Week 8: Social Motivation
Learning Outcomes
- After todas tutorial, ou should e ale to
o List three factors that influence human motivation to belong, and associated
evidence for these observed effects
Friendships
- A friendship is a complex social relationship that most people engage in
- What are the characteristics of your friendships?
- How do they compare to other relationships?
Friendships: Features
- Close bonds that are similar to familial relationships
- Long history of connection and enmeshment
- Reciprocal acts of altruism
- Emotional support and advice
- Trust, reliability and support
Friendships: Implicit Rules
- A less oious aspet of friedships is the eistee of a ode of friedship
- The friedship ode of friedship usuall i the for of ipliit rules
- Ipliit eause the are ot disussed, e assue agreeet
- Implicit rules become explicit when they are broken
- Unintentionally breaking implicit friendship rules is easy
The Motivation to Belong
- Forming social bonds and feelings of belonging are critical for our belonging and are
highly motivating for humans
- Evidence comes from findings demonstrating
o Bonds form quickly and easily
o Resistance to bond breaking
o Ostracism and social rejection physically hurt
The Motivation to Belong – Minimal Group Paradigm
- Experimental paradigm that demonstrates bonds between strangers can form
readily and easily
- For example, when arbitrarily assigned to one of multiple groups, in-group and out-
group discrimination can and often does occur
The Motivation to Belong – Bonds
- Evidence that bonds are resistant to breaking some from the fact humans try to
preserve group connections
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