The Oxford Handbook of Social Exclusion

C. Nathan DeWall, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky.

• Introduction and Overview ; 1. Emerging Perspectives on the Study of Social Exclusion ; C. Nathan DeWall ; Part Two: Basic and Historical Perspectives ; 2. Evolutionary Perspectives on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection ; Mark R. Leary and Catherine A. Cottrell ; 3. Ostracism and Stages of Coping ; Eric D. Wesselmann and Kipling D. Williams ; 4. Driven to Exclude: How Core Social Motives Explain Social Exclusion ; Michael S. North and Susan T. Fiske ; 5. The Multimotive Model of Responses to Rejection-Related Experiences ; Laura Smart Richman ; Part Three: Exclusion at the Group Level ; 6. Social Exclusion of Individuals through Interpersonal Discrimination ; Juan M. Madera and Michelle Hebl ; 7. Theory and Research on Social Exclusion in Work Groups ; Kristin L. Scott and Stefan Thau ; Part Four: Exclusion within the Family and Romantic Relations ; 8. The Dark Side of Divorce ; David A. Sbarra and Ashley E. Mason ; 9. The Importance of Feeling Valued: Perceived Regard in Romantic Relationships ; Justin V. Cavallo and John G. Holmes ; 10. Peer Rejection among Children and Adolescents: Antecedents, Reactions, and Maladaptive Pathways ; Jaana Juvonen ; Part Five: Individual Exclusion: Behavior and Cognition ; 11. Rejection and Aggression: Explaining the Paradox ; C. Nathan DeWall and Jean M. Twenge ; 12. How and When Exclusion Motivates Social Reconnection ; Daniel C. Molden and Jon K. Maner ; 13. Social Rejection Reduces Intelligent Thought and Self-Regulation ; Tyler F. Stillman and Roy F. Baumeister ; Part Six: Individual Exclusion: Physiological, Neural, and Emotional Responses ; 14. Cortisol Responses to Social Exclusion ; Sally S. Dickerson and Peggy M. Zoccola ; 15. Why Rejection Hurts: The Neuroscience of Social Pain ; Naomi I. Eisenberger ; 16. Social Pain ; Terry K. Borsook and Geoff MacDonald ; Part Seven: Exclusion across Individuals ; 17. Perceived Social Isolation Within Personal and Evolutionary Timescales ; John T. Cacioppo, Louise C. Hawkley, and Joshua Correll ; 18. The Social Stigma of Identity- and Status-Based Rejection Sensitivity ; Bonita London and Lisa Rosenthal ; 19. Depression and Suicide: Transactional Relations with Rejection ; Kimberly A. Van Orden and Thomas E. Joiner, Jr. ; 20. Individual Differences in Responses to Social Exclusion: Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Self-Compassion ; Michelle R. vanDellen, Ashley Batts Allen, and W. Keith Campbell ; 21. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Challenges of Social Exclusion ; Amori Yee Mikami ; 22. Attachment Orientations and Reactions to Ostracism in Close Relationships and Groups ; Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer ; Part Eight: Combating Social Exclusion ; 23. Social Connection and Seeing Human ; Adam Waytz ; 24. Attentional Retraining for Anxiety ; Norman B. Schmidt ; 25. Behavioral Mimicry as an Affiliative Response to Social Exclusion ; Jessica L. Lakin and Tanya L. Chartrand ; 26. Belonging Regulation Through the Use of (Para)social Surrogates ; Megan L. Knowles ; 27. The Birth and Death of Belonging ; Jeff Schimel and Jeff Greenberg ; 28. Looking Back and Forward: Lessons Learned and Moving Ahead ; C. Nathan DeWall

This is an excellent resource for better understanding relationships and learning how social exclusion occurs as well as potential interventions.