Selma C. Rudert is Junior Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany. In her research, Selma C. Rudert investigates social group processes with a specific focus on social exclusion in groups.Rainer Greifeneder is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His research focuses on various aspects of social cognition, such as the experienced ease or difficulty of thinking, or how individuals construe, experience, and react to social exclusion.Kipling D. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, USA. His research focuses on ostracism, social influence, and intragroup processes.

• Contributors 1 Understanding common and diverse forms of social exclusion Eric D. Wesselmann, Corinna Michels, and Alison Slaughter2 Social ostracism as a factor motivating interest in extreme groupsKipling D. Williams, Andrew H. Hales, and Corinna Michels3 About flames and boogeymen: social norms affect individuals’ construal of social exclusion Rainer Greifeneder and Selma C. Rudert4 Exclusion and its impact on social information processingHeather M. Claypool and Michael J. Bernstein5 Dealing with social exclusion: an analysis of psychological strategies Susanna Timeo, Paolo Riva, and Maria Paola Paladino6 How self-talk promotes self-regulation: implications for coping with emotional pain Ariana Orvell and Ethan Kross7 Hurt feelings: physical pain, social exclusion, and the psychology of pain overlapLaura J. Ferris8 Physiostracism: a case for non-invasive measures of arousal in ostracism research Ilja van Beest and Willem Sleegers9 Observing ostracism: how observers interpret and respond to ostracism situationsSelma C. Rudert and Rainer Greifeneder10 Workplace ostracism: what’s it good for? Sandra L. Robinson and Kira Schabram11 Moralization as legitimization for ostracism: effects on intergroup dynamics and social cohesion Susanne Täuber12 Rejection sensitivity as a determinant of well-being during reentryMichael J. Naft and Geraldine DowneyIndex

Selma C. Rudert is Junior Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany. In her research, Selma C. Rudert investigates social group processes with a specific focus on social exclusion in groups.Rainer Greifeneder is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His research focuses on various aspects of social cognition, such as the experienced ease or difficulty of thinking, or how individuals construe, experience, and react to social exclusion.Kipling D. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, USA. His research focuses on ostracism, social influence, and intragroup processes.

• Contributors 1 Understanding common and diverse forms of social exclusion Eric D. Wesselmann, Corinna Michels, and Alison Slaughter2 Social ostracism as a factor motivating interest in extreme groupsKipling D. Williams, Andrew H. Hales, and Corinna Michels3 About flames and boogeymen: social norms affect individuals’ construal of social exclusion Rainer Greifeneder and Selma C. Rudert4 Exclusion and its impact on social information processingHeather M. Claypool and Michael J. Bernstein5 Dealing with social exclusion: an analysis of psychological strategies Susanna Timeo, Paolo Riva, and Maria Paola Paladino6 How self-talk promotes self-regulation: implications for coping with emotional pain Ariana Orvell and Ethan Kross7 Hurt feelings: physical pain, social exclusion, and the psychology of pain overlapLaura J. Ferris8 Physiostracism: a case for non-invasive measures of arousal in ostracism research Ilja van Beest and Willem Sleegers9 Observing ostracism: how observers interpret and respond to ostracism situationsSelma C. Rudert and Rainer Greifeneder10 Workplace ostracism: what’s it good for? Sandra L. Robinson and Kira Schabram11 Moralization as legitimization for ostracism: effects on intergroup dynamics and social cohesion Susanne Täuber12 Rejection sensitivity as a determinant of well-being during reentryMichael J. Naft and Geraldine DowneyIndex

Selma C. Rudert is Junior Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany. In her research, Selma C. Rudert investigates social group processes with a specific focus on social exclusion in groups.Rainer Greifeneder is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His research focuses on various aspects of social cognition, such as the experienced ease or difficulty of thinking, or how individuals construe, experience, and react to social exclusion.Kipling D. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, USA. His research focuses on ostracism, social influence, and intragroup processes.

• Contributors 1 Understanding common and diverse forms of social exclusion Eric D. Wesselmann, Corinna Michels, and Alison Slaughter2 Social ostracism as a factor motivating interest in extreme groupsKipling D. Williams, Andrew H. Hales, and Corinna Michels3 About flames and boogeymen: social norms affect individuals’ construal of social exclusion Rainer Greifeneder and Selma C. Rudert4 Exclusion and its impact on social information processingHeather M. Claypool and Michael J. Bernstein5 Dealing with social exclusion: an analysis of psychological strategies Susanna Timeo, Paolo Riva, and Maria Paola Paladino6 How self-talk promotes self-regulation: implications for coping with emotional pain Ariana Orvell and Ethan Kross7 Hurt feelings: physical pain, social exclusion, and the psychology of pain overlapLaura J. Ferris8 Physiostracism: a case for non-invasive measures of arousal in ostracism research Ilja van Beest and Willem Sleegers9 Observing ostracism: how observers interpret and respond to ostracism situationsSelma C. Rudert and Rainer Greifeneder10 Workplace ostracism: what’s it good for? Sandra L. Robinson and Kira Schabram11 Moralization as legitimization for ostracism: effects on intergroup dynamics and social cohesion Susanne Täuber12 Rejection sensitivity as a determinant of well-being during reentryMichael J. Naft and Geraldine DowneyIndex