Research and theorizing suggest two competing—yet untested—hypotheses for how European Americans’ and Asians’ feeling of being “in control” might differ when excluded by a close other (e.g., a good friend). Drawing on different national contexts (i.e., United States, Japan), cultural groups (i.e., Japanese, Asian/Asian Americans, European Americans), and exclusion paradigms (i.e., relived, in vivo), four separate experiments (N = 2,662) examined feelings of control when excluded by a close- or distant-other. A meta-analysis across these experiments indicated that Asians and Asian Americans felt more in control than European Americans when the excluder was a close other. In contrast, no consistent pattern emerged when the excluder was a distant other. This research has implications for cultural variations in aggressiveness as well as health and well-being following exclusion’s threat to perceived control.

研究和理论分析提出了两个相互竞争的假设（尚未经过检验），这些假设是当欧美人和亚洲人被亲密朋友（例如，好朋友）排除在外时可能会有所不同的。借鉴不同国家的情况（即美国，日本），文化群体（即日本，亚洲/亚裔美国人，欧裔美国人），并排除范式（即重温，体内），四个独立的实验（ñ= 2,662）检查了被近亲或远亲排斥时的控制感。对这些实验进行的荟萃分析表明，在排除者彼此接近的情况下，亚裔和亚裔美国人比欧洲裔美国人更有控制力。相反，当排除者是遥远的另一个时，则不会出现一致的模式。这项研究对积极进取的文化差异，以及排斥对感知控制的威胁后的健康和福祉具有影响。