Assuring a sense of growth: A cognitive strategy to weaken the effect of cyber-ostracism on aggression

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Highlights：

• This study tested whether adopting growth beliefs weakened the effect of cyber-ostracism on aggression.

• Ostracized participants who were primed that ostracism was detrimental behaved more aggressively.

• Ostracized participants who were primed that ostracism could aid growth did not behave aggressively.

摘要

•This study tested whether adopting growth beliefs weakened the effect of cyber-ostracism on aggression.•Ostracized participants who were primed that ostracism was detrimental behaved more aggressively.•Ostracized participants who were primed that ostracism could aid growth did not behave aggressively.

论文关键词：Ostracism,Social exclusion,Aggression,Online communication

论文评审过程：Received 16 May 2015, Revised 23 October 2015, Accepted 14 December 2015, Available online 20 December 2015, Version of Record 20 December 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.12.032