Automatic Emotion Regulation After Social Exclusion

Most people living in society, can only access better survival, breed and development opportunities byrelying contact with others. On the one side, we need convenience and support from others, on the otherside, the groups or communities organizing by individuals also request for mutual contact and acceptance.Despite the fact that the current society puts more emphasizes on the harmony relationship between eachother, the variety of rejection phenomenon still occurs in the every corner of our lives. The situation likenot receiving response after submitting resume, failing to get along with others when join into a totally newenvironment or paper rejection from journal may lead to rejection feeling.The college students also often encounter with such events in the study activities and common lives:failing to maintain friendship with roommates, rejecting from unions, losing in election or being booed onthe platform. No matter it truly exists or lives in minds, the rejection feeling would cause uniquepsychological changes, thus leading to the varying of behavior. Among the livings, it is so common forfacing up with such rejection issues.Everyone has strong desire to maintain good social relationship with others or accessing social support.Being appreciated, favored or accepted is able to naturally help humankinds produce happiness, self-respectand confidence. On the contrary, being rejected or unappreciated may lead them feeling their living beingthreatening, and thus causing loneliness after being isolated which is called “social exclusion” inpsychology. Social exclusion is a common social issue, which is always the focus of psychological research.In the domain of psychology, the research on cause of social exclusion and the individual perceiving,emotion, behavior and human relationship is also well researched. Many research results demonstrated thatthe social exclusion may lead to behavior harmful to social relationship (e.g. individual attacking behavior)and psychological or behavior reaction after long-term dispelling from society (Leary, Kowalski, Smith,&Phillips,2003). However, the current research shows that when being deprived of some specified types ofdemands, people is more likely to show positive pursuing behavior.The exclusion sensitivity indicates the sensitive degree of being excluted by others, which is aspecified feature pointing to the inside of character and treated as the major medium factor for producingloneliness and relationship between mental reaction and healthy. But the proposed research mainly focuses on balancing the differences on testified group rather than testing the medium effect of social rejection. Thegoal of the research mainly focuses on the testing of negative effect on individuals in the scenario of chinaas well as exploring whether unconscious emotional adjustment is able to relieve the negative influenceafter social dispelling.The experiments1adopted get acquainted paradigm, testifying whether social exclusion results inemotional sorrow (e.g. angry, distress, hurt feeling and self-esteem, sense of belonging, feeling of control,the lowering of meaningful existence; And then, checking whether individual will recall more positiveevents or high evaluation towards similar events when being socially dispelled. The experiment2adoptedsame experimental method to testify various evaluation and inclination towards different value words, ofwhich purpose is to testify the functional effect of unconscious adjustment on individual emotionalfluctuation and help them notice positive information.Several conclusions are shown as below:(1) The rejection and hurt feelings are created after social exclusion under the Chinese culture, thesense of belonging declines significantly while the decreasing tendency of positive emotion is not soobvious.(2) The individual will produce the process of unconscious emotional adjustment, thus inducing morepositive emotion to balance reject environment, recalling more positive living events or higher evaluationon similar events.(3) The rejection group will adopt more emotional processing methods and realizing more positiveinformation.