| Abstract: | Adistinction was made between invidious rejection, defined as rejection for reasons that are likely to reflect upon the Ss' self-esteem, and noninvidious rejection. On the basis of the hypothesis that invidious rejection would arouse a need for social reassurance, it was predicted that: (a) for any given degree of rejection, loss of attraction to the group will be smaller when the reason for rejection is invidious than when it is noninvidious, and (b) that the differences in loss of attraction between invidious and noninvidious conditions will be greater after strong than after mild rejection. The results with respect to attraction to the group generally supported Hypothesis 1, but not Hypothesis 2. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
