Abstract

Excluded people vary in their coping with social pain. The menstrual cycle has shown to moderate experiences related to pain. We therefore investigated the influence of the menstrual cycle on aggressive intentions in response to social exclusion. Results revealed no effect of the menstrual cycle alone. However when exploratory taking dispositional social anxiety into account, we found women low in social phobia to report more aggression in response to social exclusion in the luteal than in the non-luteal phase. In this phase, they indicated a similarly high aggression level than women high in social phobia who did not differ between the luteal and non-luteal phase. These findings are discussed within the framework of evolutionary adaption.

摘要

被排斥的人应对社会痛苦的方式各不相同。月经周期已显示可减轻与疼痛有关的经历。因此，我们调查了月经周期对攻击性意图的影响，以应对社会排斥。结果显示单独的月经周期没有影响。但是，在探索性考虑社交性格焦虑的情况下，我们发现社交恐惧症低的女性在黄体形成阶段比非黄体形成阶段对社交排斥反应的攻击性更高。在这个阶段，他们的攻击程度与社交恐惧症高发女性相似，后者在黄体期和非黄体期之间没有差异。在进化适应的框架内讨论了这些发现。