ABSTRACT

Promotion- and prevention-focused people are differentially sensitive to situational gains and losses, thus we reasoned that people’s state regulatory focus following social exclusion should influence whether a social reconnection opportunity is perceived as safe (i.e., will exclusion persist or abate). To create an exclusion condition, all participants believed that other ostensible participants read their personal essay and chose not to work with them (i.e., all participants were excluded). Following the exclusion, participants rated how much they wanted to work with a new partner whose personality was depicted as a safe or unsafe reconnection opportunity. We expected and found that participants who held a prevention focus were willing to work with the partner, but only when the opportunity was perceived as safe. By comparison, participants who held a promotion focus were willing to work with the partner regardless of the opportunity’s safety. The relationship between social reconnection safety and regulatory focus and its effect on social reconnection efforts is discussed.

摘要

以促进和预防为重点的人对情境得失的敏感度不同，因此我们推断人们在社会排斥后的国家监管重点应该影响社会重新联系机会是否被认为是安全的（即排斥会持续还是减弱）。为了创造排除条件，所有参与者都认为其他表面上的参与者阅读了他们的个人文章并选择不与他们合作（即所有参与者都被排除在外）。在排除之后，参与者评估他们希望与一个新的合作伙伴一起工作的程度，新合作伙伴的个性被描述为安全或不安全的重新联系机会。我们预期并发现参加预防的参与者focus 愿意与合作伙伴一起工作，但前提是机会被认为是安全的。相比之下，持有晋升重点的参与者愿意与合作伙伴一起工作，而不管机会是否安全。讨论了社会重新联系安全与监管重点之间的关系及其对社会重新联系工作的影响。