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Alone but feeling no pain: Effects of social exclusion on physical pain tolerance and pain threshold, affective forecasting, and interpersonal empathyC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:1-15. 2006..The insensitivities to pain and emotion were highly intercorrelated...- Openness to attitude change as a function of temporal perspectiveC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 32306, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:1010-23. 2006..These studies demonstrate that perception of time plays a vital role in motivating social goals within the persuasion context... 
So far away from one's partner, yet so close to romantic alternatives: avoidant attachment, interest in alternatives, and infidelityC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 101:1302-16. 2011..Thus, avoidant attachment predicted a broad spectrum of responses indicative of interest in alternatives and propensity to engage in infidelity, which were mediated by low levels of commitment...- Repulsed by violence: disgust sensitivity buffers trait, behavioral, and daily aggressionRichard S Pond
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 102:175-88. 2012..These results highlight the usefulness of considering the motivational direction of an emotion when examining its influence on aggression... - Belongingness as a core personality trait: how social exclusion influences social functioning and personality expressionC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
J Pers 79:1281-314. 2011..To appreciate personality processes in social contexts, scientists should consider how people respond to social exclusion and how the need to belong influences personality expression... - Forbidden fruit: inattention to attractive alternatives provokes implicit relationship reactanceC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 100:621-9. 2011.... - Depletion makes the heart grow less helpful: helping as a function of self-regulatory energy and genetic relatednessC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:1653-62. 2008..Helping requires self-regulatory energy to manage conflict between selfish and prosocial motivations-a metabolically expensive process-and thus depleted energy reduces helping and increased energy (glucose) increases helping... 
Do neural responses to rejection depend on attachment style? An fMRI studyC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7:184-92. 2012..In contrast, avoidant attachment related to less activity in these regions. Findings are discussed in terms of the strategies that individuals with varying attachment styles might use to promote maintenance of social bonds...- Using I³ theory to clarify when dispositional aggressiveness predicts intimate partner violence perpetrationEli J Finkel
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 102:533-49. 2012..Discussion emphasizes the importance of incorporating instigating, impelling, and inhibiting processes into theoretical and empirical analyses of IPV perpetration... - The disguise of sobriety: unveiled by alcohol in persons with an aggressive personalityPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY40506 0044, USA
J Pers 80:163-85. 2012..The aggressive personality variable moderated the alcohol-aggression relation. Specifically, alcohol was significantly more likely to increase aggression in persons with higher, compared with lower, aggressive personality scores... - It's the thought that counts: The role of hostile cognition in shaping aggressive responses to social exclusionC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:45-59. 2009..These findings provide a first step in resolving the mystery of why social exclusion produces aggression... - Social exclusion and early-stage interpersonal perception: selective attention to signs of acceptanceC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:729-41. 2009..The threat of social exclusion motivates people to connect with sources of acceptance, which is manifested not only in "downstream" choices and behaviors but also at the level of basic, early-stage perceptual processing... - Acetaminophen reduces social pain: behavioral and neural evidenceC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Sci 21:931-7. 2010..Thus, acetaminophen reduces behavioral and neural responses associated with the pain of social rejection, demonstrating substantial overlap between social and physical pain... - Putting the brakes on aggression toward a romantic partner: the inhibitory influence of relationship commitmentErica B Slotter
Department of Psychology, Villanova University, 800 LancasterAvenue, Villanova, PA 19085, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 102:291-305. 2012..Discussion emphasizes the importance of understanding instigating, impelling, and inhibiting processes in the perpetration of aggression toward intimate partners... - Satiated with belongingness? Effects of acceptance, rejection, and task framing on self-regulatory performanceC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40605 0044, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:1367-82. 2008..Accepted people are normally good at self-regulation but are unwilling to exert the effort to self-regulate if self-regulation means gaining the social acceptance they have already obtained... - Social exclusion decreases prosocial behaviorJean M Twenge
Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182 4611, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:56-66. 2007..The implication is that rejection temporarily interferes with emotional responses, thereby impairing the capacity for empathic understanding of others, and as a result, any inclination to help or cooperate with them is undermined... - Emotion differentiation moderates aggressive tendencies in angry people: A daily diary analysisRichard S Pond
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Emotion 12:326-37. 2012..These results highlight the importance of considering how angry people differentiate their emotions in predicting their aggressive responses to anger... - Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source: willpower is more than a metaphorMatthew T Gailliot
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:325-36. 2007..Self-control requires a certain amount of glucose to operate unimpaired. A single act of self-control causes glucose to drop below optimal levels, thereby impairing subsequent attempts at self-control... - Prosocial benefits of feeling free: disbelief in free will increases aggression and reduces helpfulnessRoy F Baumeister
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 35:260-8. 2009..Although the findings do not speak to the existence of free will, the current results suggest that disbelief in free will reduces helping and increases aggression... - Self-control without a "self"?: common self-control processes in humans and dogsHolly C Miller
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Sci 21:534-8. 2010..These findings provide the first evidence that self-control relies on the same limited energy resource among humans and nonhumans. Our results have broad implications for the study of self-control processes in human and nonhuman species... - Automatic emotion regulation after social exclusion: tuning to positivityC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, KY, USA
Emotion 11:623-36. 2011..These findings suggest that acute exclusion sets in motion an automatic emotion regulation process in which positive emotions become highly accessible, which relates to positive mental health... - How leaders self-regulate their task performance: evidence that power promotes diligence, depletion, and disdainC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 100:47-65. 2011..The judicious expenditure of self-control resources among powerful people may help them prioritize their efforts to pursue their goals effectively... - Sweetened blood cools hot tempers: physiological self-control and aggressionC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Kastle Hall, Lexington, USA
Aggress Behav 37:73-80. 2011..All four studies suggest that a spoonful of sugar helps aggressive and violent behaviors go down... - Do different facets of impulsivity predict different types of aggression?Karen Derefinko
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 40506 0044, USA
Aggress Behav 37:223-33. 2011..Implications regarding the use of a multifaceted conceptualization of impulsivity in the prediction of different types of violent behavior are discussed... - How emotion shapes behavior: feedback, anticipation, and reflection, rather than direct causationRoy F Baumeister
Florida State University, Florida, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 11:167-203. 2007..To justify replacing the direct causation model with the feedback model, the authors review a large body of empirical findings... - Selective attention to signs of success: social dominance and early stage interpersonal perceptionJon K Maner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4301, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:488-501. 2008..This research demonstrates the utility of examining early-in-the-stream social cognition through the functionalist lens of adaptive thinking... - Does social exclusion motivate interpersonal reconnection? Resolving the "porcupine problem"Jon K Maner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:42-55. 2007.... - Self-regulatory failure and intimate partner violence perpetrationEli J Finkel
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 2710, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 97:483-99. 2009..These findings hint at the power of incorporating self-regulation dynamics into predictive models of IPV perpetration... - Applying the attention-allocation model to the explanation of alcohol-related aggression: implications for preventionPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
Subst Use Misuse 44:1263-79. 2009..Finally, a number of practical suggestions are put forth regarding how the AAM can be applied to the prevention of intoxicated aggression... - Arguing, reasoning, and the interpersonal (cultural) functions of human consciousnessRoy F Baumeister
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4301 http www psy fsu edu baumeistertice index html
Behav Brain Sci 34:74. 2011..These mesh well with the argument theory of reasoning. In broader context, the distinctively human traits are adaptations for culture and inner processes serve interpersonal functions... - Social exclusion impairs self-regulationRoy F Baumeister
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 88:589-604. 2005..Thus, rejected people are capable of self-regulation but are normally disinclined to make the effort... - Evidence that logical reasoning depends on conscious processingC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 201 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Conscious Cogn 17:628-45. 2008..Meanwhile, stimulating the conscious goal of reasoning well led to improvements in reasoning performance (Experiment 4). These findings offer evidence that logical reasoning is aided by the conscious, reflective processing system... - From terror to joy: automatic tuning to positive affective information following mortality salienceC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Sci 18:984-90. 2007..These findings shed light on the coping process that ensues immediately following mortality salience and help to explain why a delay is often necessary to produce effects in line with terror management theory... - What's so funny about not having money? The effects of power on laughterTyler F Stillman
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, FL 32306, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:1547-58. 2007..Low power also increased laughing at a fellow low-power coworker. These findings suggest that low power motivates interest in making friends and hence increases behaviors that promote social bonding... - Self-regulation and personality: how interventions increase regulatory success, and how depletion moderates the effects of traits on behaviorRoy F Baumeister
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
J Pers 74:1773-801. 2006.... - The optimal calibration hypothesis: how life history modulates the brain's social pain networkDavid S Chester
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, USA
Front Evol Neurosci 4:10. 2012..Furthermore, the social pain response may be exacerbated when individuals are rejected by others of particular importance to a given life history stage (e.g., potential mates during young adulthood, parents during infancy and childhood)...