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Releasing prisoners won’t solve the crisis in English and Welsh jails. Here’s what will | Enver Solomon
By Enver SolomonMinisters need to level with the public about what current prison sentences look like – who needs to be locked up and for how long
#Prisonsandprobation #Law #UKcriminaljustice #Society #Homelessness #Labour #Socialexclusion #Politics #England #Wales #TheGuardian #EnverSolomon
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Releasing prisoners won’t solve the crisis in English and Welsh jails. Here’s what will | Enver Solomon
By Enver SolomonMinisters need to level with the public about what current prison sentences look like – who needs to be locked up and for how long
#Prisonsandprobation #Law #UKcriminaljustice #Society #Homelessness #Labour #Socialexclusion #Politics #England #Wales #TheGuardian #EnverSolomon
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Releasing prisoners won’t solve the crisis in English and Welsh jails. Here’s what will | Enver Solomon
By Enver SolomonMinisters need to level with the public about what current prison sentences look like – who needs to be locked up and for how long
#Prisonsandprobation #Law #UKcriminaljustice #Society #Homelessness #Labour #Socialexclusion #Politics #England #Wales #TheGuardian #EnverSolomon
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Releasing prisoners won’t solve the crisis in English and Welsh jails. Here’s what will | Enver Solomon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/01/releasing-prisoners-crisis-english-welsh-jails-sentences #PrisonsAndProbation #Law #UkCriminalJustice #Society #Homelessness #Labour #SocialExclusion #Politics #England #Wales
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Releasing prisoners won’t solve the crisis in English and Welsh jails. Here’s what will | Enver Solomon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/01/releasing-prisoners-crisis-english-welsh-jails-sentences #PrisonsAndProbation #Law #UkCriminalJustice #Society #Homelessness #Labour #SocialExclusion #Politics #England #Wales
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Releasing prisoners won’t solve the crisis in English and Welsh jails. Here’s what will | Enver Solomon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/01/releasing-prisoners-crisis-english-welsh-jails-sentences #PrisonsAndProbation #Law #UkCriminalJustice #Society #Homelessness #Labour #SocialExclusion #Politics #England #Wales
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Healthy Babies programme to be expanded across England
By Charlie MoloneyScheme will follow principles of Sure Start, helping families with infant feeding, mental health and bonding with babies
#Society #Children #Parentsandparenting #UKnews #Labour #Family #Politics #Poverty #Socialexclusion #TheGuardian #CharlieMoloney
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Healthy Babies programme to be expanded across England
By Charlie MoloneyScheme will follow principles of Sure Start, helping families with infant feeding, mental health and bonding with babies
#Society #Children #Parentsandparenting #UKnews #Labour #Family #Politics #Poverty #Socialexclusion #TheGuardian #CharlieMoloney
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Healthy Babies programme to be expanded across England
By Charlie MoloneyScheme will follow principles of Sure Start, helping families with infant feeding, mental health and bonding with babies
#Society #Children #Parentsandparenting #UKnews #Labour #Family #Politics #Poverty #Socialexclusion #TheGuardian #CharlieMoloney
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Healthy Babies programme to be expanded across England https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/30/healthy-babies-programme-to-be-expanded-across-england #Society #Children #ParentsAndParenting #UkNews #Labour #Family #Politics #Poverty #SocialExclusion
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Healthy Babies programme to be expanded across England https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/30/healthy-babies-programme-to-be-expanded-across-england #Society #Children #ParentsAndParenting #UkNews #Labour #Family #Politics #Poverty #SocialExclusion
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Healthy Babies programme to be expanded across England https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/30/healthy-babies-programme-to-be-expanded-across-england #Society #Children #ParentsAndParenting #UkNews #Labour #Family #Politics #Poverty #SocialExclusion
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Healthy Babies programme to be expanded across England https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/30/healthy-babies-programme-to-be-expanded-across-england #Society #Children #ParentsAndParenting #UkNews #Labour #Family #Politics #Poverty #SocialExclusion
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‘They accepted the money but didn’t take care of my child’: what Luna Wong’s death reveals about the treatment of international students in the UK
By Samira ShackleWhen her parents waved her off to study in England they hoped it would be a fresh start the 16-year-old needed after struggling with her mental health in Hong Kong. Instead, 10 months later, she was dead. What went so wrong?
#Mentalhealth #Depression #Socialexclusion #Health #Society #Privateschools #Internationalstudents #Schools #Students #Education #Healthwellbeing #Lifeandstyle #TheGuardian #SamiraShackle
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‘They accepted the money but didn’t take care of my child’: what Luna Wong’s death reveals about the treatment of international students in the UK
By Samira ShackleWhen her parents waved her off to study in England they hoped it would be a fresh start the 16-year-old needed after struggling with her mental health in Hong Kong. Instead, 10 months later, she was dead. What went so wrong?
#Mentalhealth #Depression #Socialexclusion #Health #Society #Privateschools #Internationalstudents #Schools #Students #Education #Healthwellbeing #Lifeandstyle #TheGuardian #SamiraShackle
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‘They accepted the money but didn’t take care of my child’: what Luna Wong’s death reveals about the treatment of international students in the UK
By Samira ShackleWhen her parents waved her off to study in England they hoped it would be a fresh start the 16-year-old needed after struggling with her mental health in Hong Kong. Instead, 10 months later, she was dead. What went so wrong?
#Mentalhealth #Depression #Socialexclusion #Health #Society #Privateschools #Internationalstudents #Schools #Students #Education #Healthwellbeing #Lifeandstyle #TheGuardian #SamiraShackle
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DATE: September 25, 2026 at 09:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: People with excessive smartphone habits show distinct neural responses to social exclusion
URL: https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-how-excessive-smartphone-users-process-social-rejection/
Individuals who exhibit excessive smartphone use display distinct brain activity patterns when experiencing social exclusion. A small study published in Computers in Human Behavior indicates that this heightened neural sensitivity could play a role in the persistence of screen-related behavioral addictions. The research highlights specific emotional and cognitive vulnerabilities that accompany heavy smartphone reliance.
The psychological boundaries between habit and addiction are a subject of ongoing debate among mental health professionals. Behavioral addictions often arise from a combination of underlying personal traits, heightened responses to external cues, and impaired cognitive control. Researchers refer to these intersecting factors to understand how people develop compulsive routines over time. In the context of smartphones, many applications are designed specifically to facilitate digital social interaction and constant connectivity.
When a person feels left out of these digital interactions, they may experience a form of emotional distress that resembles physical pain. Social exclusion is a recognized psychological stressor that triggers strong biobehavioral responses. People who struggle with emotional regulation might rely on their devices to manage this distress or to maintain a false sense of belonging. The fear of missing out, or FOMO, is a related concept that describes the persistent anxiety of being absent from rewarding social events.
A research team led by psychiatrist Robert C. Wolf at Heidelberg University in Germany set out to observe the brain activity of people who use their phones excessively. The investigators focused on the socio-cognitive aspects of smartphone habits, an area that receives less attention than reward-seeking behaviors. They wanted to see how the brains of frequent users react to being socially excluded compared to people with average phone habits.
The investigators recruited 41 young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 for this small study. To divide the participants into two groups, the researchers administered a standardized questionnaire that measures excessive smartphone use. This diagnostic tool assesses behaviors like withdrawal symptoms, building a tolerance to screen time, and how much phone habits interfere with daily life. Based on the scores, 23 participants were placed in the excessive use group, and 18 were assigned to the control group.
Before brain scanning, all participants completed additional surveys to measure their levels of depression, social phobia, and fear of missing out. The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to observe blood flow in the participants’ brains. This advanced imaging technique allows scientists to see which areas of the brain are most active during specific cognitive tasks.
While inside the scanner, the participants played a virtual ball-tossing game called Cyberball. The researchers told the participants that they were playing online with two other real human volunteers. To make the scenario more convincing, the game started with a loading screen stating a network connection was being established. The interface also displayed artificial intelligence-generated portrait photos of the supposed co-players.
In reality, the other players were controlled by a computer program designed to manipulate the participant’s social experience. The game was divided into different structured phases. During the inclusion phase, the computer-controlled players threw the ball to the human participant regularly. During the exclusion phase, the computer players only passed the ball back and forth to each other, leaving the human participant out of the game entirely.
The brain scans revealed marked differences between the two groups during these simulated social interactions. When comparing the exclusion phase to the inclusion phase, the excessive smartphone use group showed heightened activity in the right middle cingulate cortex. This region of the brain is known to be heavily involved in processing pain, including the emotional sting of social rejection. The heightened activation suggests that people who use their phones excessively might have an altered threshold for social pain.
This brain activation also extended into the right superior frontal cortex. This area is traditionally associated with complex cognitive functions, executive control, and decision-making. The simultaneous activation of these areas implies an intense emotional and cognitive reaction to being left out of the group activity.
Conversely, the control group displayed increased activity in a different part of the brain during the exclusion phase. These individuals showed higher activation in the left superior parietal cortex. This specific brain region helps manage working memory and integrates various streams of sensory information. The findings indicate that average smartphone users process social exclusion using different neural pathways than heavy users.
The behavioral survey results aligned closely with the brain imaging data. Participants in the excessive use group scored substantially higher on the fear of missing out scale than those in the control group. The excessive use group also reported higher levels of functional impairment in their daily routines due to their screen habits.
The researchers then looked for mathematical relationships between the survey scores and the localized brain scan data. In the excessive use group, the level of activity in the left superior parietal cortex positively correlated with their functional impairment scores. The investigators also mapped the overall brain activity patterns to known neurotransmitter networks to see which chemical messengers were at work.
They found that dopamine and serotonin pathways were highly active during the social exclusion phase for both groups. These specific chemicals help regulate mood, reward processing, and pain perception in the human nervous system. The involvement of these neurotransmitters confirms that the virtual game successfully induced a genuine feeling of social distress across the entire study sample.
Because this was an observational cross-sectional study, causality cannot be firmly established. It is not possible to say whether excessive smartphone use causes heightened sensitivity to social exclusion, or if a pre-existing emotional sensitivity drives people to use their phones more often. The sample size was also limited, which means the results should be treated as preliminary until replicated in larger populations.
The experimental setup itself presented some methodological limitations. Several participants suspected that they were playing against a computer program rather than real people. This awareness might have dampened the emotional impact of the social exclusion exercise for those specific individuals. Additionally, screening for underlying psychiatric conditions relied entirely on self-reported surveys rather than in-depth clinical evaluations by a mental health professional.
Future investigations will need to track participants over longer periods of time to see how smartphone habits and social sensitivities develop sequentially. Experimental designs that involve periods of enforced smartphone restriction could help clarify how social pain and digital habits influence one another. These longitudinal approaches could provide a better understanding of how people use digital networks to manage their basic human need for connection and belonging.
The study, “Neural correlates of social exclusion in individuals with excessive smartphone use,” was authored by Gudrun M. Henemann, Mike M. Schmitgen, Sophie H. Haage, Jakob P. Rosero, Patrick Bach, Nadine D. Wolf, Julian Koenig, and Robert C. Wolf.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-how-excessive-smartphone-users-process-social-rejection/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #SmartphoneUse #SocialExclusion #NeuralResponses #fMRI #CyberballStudy #DigitalAddiction #FOMO #DopamineSerotonin #MentalHealth #BrainImaging
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DATE: September 25, 2026 at 09:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: People with excessive smartphone habits show distinct neural responses to social exclusion
URL: https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-how-excessive-smartphone-users-process-social-rejection/
Individuals who exhibit excessive smartphone use display distinct brain activity patterns when experiencing social exclusion. A small study published in Computers in Human Behavior indicates that this heightened neural sensitivity could play a role in the persistence of screen-related behavioral addictions. The research highlights specific emotional and cognitive vulnerabilities that accompany heavy smartphone reliance.
The psychological boundaries between habit and addiction are a subject of ongoing debate among mental health professionals. Behavioral addictions often arise from a combination of underlying personal traits, heightened responses to external cues, and impaired cognitive control. Researchers refer to these intersecting factors to understand how people develop compulsive routines over time. In the context of smartphones, many applications are designed specifically to facilitate digital social interaction and constant connectivity.
When a person feels left out of these digital interactions, they may experience a form of emotional distress that resembles physical pain. Social exclusion is a recognized psychological stressor that triggers strong biobehavioral responses. People who struggle with emotional regulation might rely on their devices to manage this distress or to maintain a false sense of belonging. The fear of missing out, or FOMO, is a related concept that describes the persistent anxiety of being absent from rewarding social events.
A research team led by psychiatrist Robert C. Wolf at Heidelberg University in Germany set out to observe the brain activity of people who use their phones excessively. The investigators focused on the socio-cognitive aspects of smartphone habits, an area that receives less attention than reward-seeking behaviors. They wanted to see how the brains of frequent users react to being socially excluded compared to people with average phone habits.
The investigators recruited 41 young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 for this small study. To divide the participants into two groups, the researchers administered a standardized questionnaire that measures excessive smartphone use. This diagnostic tool assesses behaviors like withdrawal symptoms, building a tolerance to screen time, and how much phone habits interfere with daily life. Based on the scores, 23 participants were placed in the excessive use group, and 18 were assigned to the control group.
Before brain scanning, all participants completed additional surveys to measure their levels of depression, social phobia, and fear of missing out. The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to observe blood flow in the participants’ brains. This advanced imaging technique allows scientists to see which areas of the brain are most active during specific cognitive tasks.
While inside the scanner, the participants played a virtual ball-tossing game called Cyberball. The researchers told the participants that they were playing online with two other real human volunteers. To make the scenario more convincing, the game started with a loading screen stating a network connection was being established. The interface also displayed artificial intelligence-generated portrait photos of the supposed co-players.
In reality, the other players were controlled by a computer program designed to manipulate the participant’s social experience. The game was divided into different structured phases. During the inclusion phase, the computer-controlled players threw the ball to the human participant regularly. During the exclusion phase, the computer players only passed the ball back and forth to each other, leaving the human participant out of the game entirely.
The brain scans revealed marked differences between the two groups during these simulated social interactions. When comparing the exclusion phase to the inclusion phase, the excessive smartphone use group showed heightened activity in the right middle cingulate cortex. This region of the brain is known to be heavily involved in processing pain, including the emotional sting of social rejection. The heightened activation suggests that people who use their phones excessively might have an altered threshold for social pain.
This brain activation also extended into the right superior frontal cortex. This area is traditionally associated with complex cognitive functions, executive control, and decision-making. The simultaneous activation of these areas implies an intense emotional and cognitive reaction to being left out of the group activity.
Conversely, the control group displayed increased activity in a different part of the brain during the exclusion phase. These individuals showed higher activation in the left superior parietal cortex. This specific brain region helps manage working memory and integrates various streams of sensory information. The findings indicate that average smartphone users process social exclusion using different neural pathways than heavy users.
The behavioral survey results aligned closely with the brain imaging data. Participants in the excessive use group scored substantially higher on the fear of missing out scale than those in the control group. The excessive use group also reported higher levels of functional impairment in their daily routines due to their screen habits.
The researchers then looked for mathematical relationships between the survey scores and the localized brain scan data. In the excessive use group, the level of activity in the left superior parietal cortex positively correlated with their functional impairment scores. The investigators also mapped the overall brain activity patterns to known neurotransmitter networks to see which chemical messengers were at work.
They found that dopamine and serotonin pathways were highly active during the social exclusion phase for both groups. These specific chemicals help regulate mood, reward processing, and pain perception in the human nervous system. The involvement of these neurotransmitters confirms that the virtual game successfully induced a genuine feeling of social distress across the entire study sample.
Because this was an observational cross-sectional study, causality cannot be firmly established. It is not possible to say whether excessive smartphone use causes heightened sensitivity to social exclusion, or if a pre-existing emotional sensitivity drives people to use their phones more often. The sample size was also limited, which means the results should be treated as preliminary until replicated in larger populations.
The experimental setup itself presented some methodological limitations. Several participants suspected that they were playing against a computer program rather than real people. This awareness might have dampened the emotional impact of the social exclusion exercise for those specific individuals. Additionally, screening for underlying psychiatric conditions relied entirely on self-reported surveys rather than in-depth clinical evaluations by a mental health professional.
Future investigations will need to track participants over longer periods of time to see how smartphone habits and social sensitivities develop sequentially. Experimental designs that involve periods of enforced smartphone restriction could help clarify how social pain and digital habits influence one another. These longitudinal approaches could provide a better understanding of how people use digital networks to manage their basic human need for connection and belonging.
The study, “Neural correlates of social exclusion in individuals with excessive smartphone use,” was authored by Gudrun M. Henemann, Mike M. Schmitgen, Sophie H. Haage, Jakob P. Rosero, Patrick Bach, Nadine D. Wolf, Julian Koenig, and Robert C. Wolf.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-how-excessive-smartphone-users-process-social-rejection/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #SmartphoneUse #SocialExclusion #NeuralResponses #fMRI #CyberballStudy #DigitalAddiction #FOMO #DopamineSerotonin #MentalHealth #BrainImaging
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DATE: September 25, 2026 at 09:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: People with excessive smartphone habits show distinct neural responses to social exclusion
URL: https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-how-excessive-smartphone-users-process-social-rejection/
Individuals who exhibit excessive smartphone use display distinct brain activity patterns when experiencing social exclusion. A small study published in Computers in Human Behavior indicates that this heightened neural sensitivity could play a role in the persistence of screen-related behavioral addictions. The research highlights specific emotional and cognitive vulnerabilities that accompany heavy smartphone reliance.
The psychological boundaries between habit and addiction are a subject of ongoing debate among mental health professionals. Behavioral addictions often arise from a combination of underlying personal traits, heightened responses to external cues, and impaired cognitive control. Researchers refer to these intersecting factors to understand how people develop compulsive routines over time. In the context of smartphones, many applications are designed specifically to facilitate digital social interaction and constant connectivity.
When a person feels left out of these digital interactions, they may experience a form of emotional distress that resembles physical pain. Social exclusion is a recognized psychological stressor that triggers strong biobehavioral responses. People who struggle with emotional regulation might rely on their devices to manage this distress or to maintain a false sense of belonging. The fear of missing out, or FOMO, is a related concept that describes the persistent anxiety of being absent from rewarding social events.
A research team led by psychiatrist Robert C. Wolf at Heidelberg University in Germany set out to observe the brain activity of people who use their phones excessively. The investigators focused on the socio-cognitive aspects of smartphone habits, an area that receives less attention than reward-seeking behaviors. They wanted to see how the brains of frequent users react to being socially excluded compared to people with average phone habits.
The investigators recruited 41 young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 for this small study. To divide the participants into two groups, the researchers administered a standardized questionnaire that measures excessive smartphone use. This diagnostic tool assesses behaviors like withdrawal symptoms, building a tolerance to screen time, and how much phone habits interfere with daily life. Based on the scores, 23 participants were placed in the excessive use group, and 18 were assigned to the control group.
Before brain scanning, all participants completed additional surveys to measure their levels of depression, social phobia, and fear of missing out. The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to observe blood flow in the participants’ brains. This advanced imaging technique allows scientists to see which areas of the brain are most active during specific cognitive tasks.
While inside the scanner, the participants played a virtual ball-tossing game called Cyberball. The researchers told the participants that they were playing online with two other real human volunteers. To make the scenario more convincing, the game started with a loading screen stating a network connection was being established. The interface also displayed artificial intelligence-generated portrait photos of the supposed co-players.
In reality, the other players were controlled by a computer program designed to manipulate the participant’s social experience. The game was divided into different structured phases. During the inclusion phase, the computer-controlled players threw the ball to the human participant regularly. During the exclusion phase, the computer players only passed the ball back and forth to each other, leaving the human participant out of the game entirely.
The brain scans revealed marked differences between the two groups during these simulated social interactions. When comparing the exclusion phase to the inclusion phase, the excessive smartphone use group showed heightened activity in the right middle cingulate cortex. This region of the brain is known to be heavily involved in processing pain, including the emotional sting of social rejection. The heightened activation suggests that people who use their phones excessively might have an altered threshold for social pain.
This brain activation also extended into the right superior frontal cortex. This area is traditionally associated with complex cognitive functions, executive control, and decision-making. The simultaneous activation of these areas implies an intense emotional and cognitive reaction to being left out of the group activity.
Conversely, the control group displayed increased activity in a different part of the brain during the exclusion phase. These individuals showed higher activation in the left superior parietal cortex. This specific brain region helps manage working memory and integrates various streams of sensory information. The findings indicate that average smartphone users process social exclusion using different neural pathways than heavy users.
The behavioral survey results aligned closely with the brain imaging data. Participants in the excessive use group scored substantially higher on the fear of missing out scale than those in the control group. The excessive use group also reported higher levels of functional impairment in their daily routines due to their screen habits.
The researchers then looked for mathematical relationships between the survey scores and the localized brain scan data. In the excessive use group, the level of activity in the left superior parietal cortex positively correlated with their functional impairment scores. The investigators also mapped the overall brain activity patterns to known neurotransmitter networks to see which chemical messengers were at work.
They found that dopamine and serotonin pathways were highly active during the social exclusion phase for both groups. These specific chemicals help regulate mood, reward processing, and pain perception in the human nervous system. The involvement of these neurotransmitters confirms that the virtual game successfully induced a genuine feeling of social distress across the entire study sample.
Because this was an observational cross-sectional study, causality cannot be firmly established. It is not possible to say whether excessive smartphone use causes heightened sensitivity to social exclusion, or if a pre-existing emotional sensitivity drives people to use their phones more often. The sample size was also limited, which means the results should be treated as preliminary until replicated in larger populations.
The experimental setup itself presented some methodological limitations. Several participants suspected that they were playing against a computer program rather than real people. This awareness might have dampened the emotional impact of the social exclusion exercise for those specific individuals. Additionally, screening for underlying psychiatric conditions relied entirely on self-reported surveys rather than in-depth clinical evaluations by a mental health professional.
Future investigations will need to track participants over longer periods of time to see how smartphone habits and social sensitivities develop sequentially. Experimental designs that involve periods of enforced smartphone restriction could help clarify how social pain and digital habits influence one another. These longitudinal approaches could provide a better understanding of how people use digital networks to manage their basic human need for connection and belonging.
The study, “Neural correlates of social exclusion in individuals with excessive smartphone use,” was authored by Gudrun M. Henemann, Mike M. Schmitgen, Sophie H. Haage, Jakob P. Rosero, Patrick Bach, Nadine D. Wolf, Julian Koenig, and Robert C. Wolf.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-how-excessive-smartphone-users-process-social-rejection/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #SmartphoneUse #SocialExclusion #NeuralResponses #fMRI #CyberballStudy #DigitalAddiction #FOMO #DopamineSerotonin #MentalHealth #BrainImaging
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‘Addiction is not only caused by weak will’: how a talking pigeon got Czechia to face up to its alcohol problem
By Miloš HrochDirector Pepa Lubojacki’s heartbreaking film chronicles the lives of her brother as he struggles with drink and homelessness – and her own shame in the face of societal prejudice
#Film #Culture #Homelessness #Czechia #Housing #Poverty #Socialexclusion #Society #Europe #Documentaryfilms #TheGuardian #MiloHroch
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‘Addiction is not only caused by weak will’: how a talking pigeon got Czechia to face up to its alcohol problem
By Miloš HrochDirector Pepa Lubojacki’s heartbreaking film chronicles the lives of her brother as he struggles with drink and homelessness – and her own shame in the face of societal prejudice
#Film #Culture #Homelessness #Czechia #Housing #Poverty #Socialexclusion #Society #Europe #Documentaryfilms #TheGuardian #MiloHroch
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‘Addiction is not only caused by weak will’: how a talking pigeon got Czechia to face up to its alcohol problem
By Miloš HrochDirector Pepa Lubojacki’s heartbreaking film chronicles the lives of her brother as he struggles with drink and homelessness – and her own shame in the face of societal prejudice
#Film #Culture #Homelessness #Czechia #Housing #Poverty #Socialexclusion #Society #Europe #Documentaryfilms #TheGuardian #MiloHroch
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The families facing a food crisis in school holidays | Letters
By Guardian StaffAndrew Forsey urges the government to restore the link between free school meals and the holiday activities and food programme
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/16/the-families-facing-a-food-crisis-in-school-holidays
#Children #Society #Politics #Poverty #Health #Inequality #UKnews #Schoolmeals #Benefits #Foodpoverty #Socialexclusion #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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The families facing a food crisis in school holidays | Letters
By Guardian StaffAndrew Forsey urges the government to restore the link between free school meals and the holiday activities and food programme
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/16/the-families-facing-a-food-crisis-in-school-holidays
#Children #Society #Politics #Poverty #Health #Inequality #UKnews #Schoolmeals #Benefits #Foodpoverty #Socialexclusion #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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The families facing a food crisis in school holidays | Letters
By Guardian StaffAndrew Forsey urges the government to restore the link between free school meals and the holiday activities and food programme
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/16/the-families-facing-a-food-crisis-in-school-holidays
#Children #Society #Politics #Poverty #Health #Inequality #UKnews #Schoolmeals #Benefits #Foodpoverty #Socialexclusion #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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DATE: September 11, 2026 at 08:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: The surprising link between prosocial motivation and dark creativity
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-rejection-and-neglect-fuel-dark-creativity/
Being actively rejected and being silently ignored both cause social pain, but they trigger entirely different forms of dark creativity. A recent series of psychological experiments reveals that people who feel ignored generate highly malicious ideas, while those who feel rejected come up with a higher volume of creative ideas that are less harmful. The research was published in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Creativity is usually viewed as a positive trait that drives innovation and problem solving. When people use divergent thinking to materially, mentally, or physically harm others, psychologists refer to this as malevolent creativity. The products of this dark imagination combine harmful intent with novelty, making them dangerous, difficult to detect, and hard to anticipate.
People often resort to malevolent creativity when they face threatening or unfair situations in their daily lives. Social exclusion is one common trigger, causing emotional pain that can lead to antisocial reactions. Psychologists have found that individuals use malevolent creativity as a defense mechanism to cope with social threats.
Not all forms of social exclusion are the same. Explicit rejection is a direct action that threatens a person’s fundamental need to belong to a group. In contrast, being ignored or given the silent treatment is more indirect. This implicit exclusion threatens a person’s sense of control and efficacy. According to psychological models of social behavior, people adjust their responses based on which specific psychological need is threatened.
Psychologist Junsheng Wu and a research team from Ningbo University in China wanted to understand how these distinct social threats shape dark creativity. The researchers suspected that the two types of exclusion would alter a person’s desire to help others, known as prosocial motivation, in entirely different ways. They designed a series of independent experiments to test how this motivation bridges the gap between social pain and creative revenge.
The research team conducted three distinct experiments to establish a chain of cause and effect. In the first experiment, the researchers randomly assigned 120 college students to one of three groups. They asked the participants to spend five minutes writing a detailed account of a specific memory. One group wrote about a time they felt intensely rejected and were told they were not wanted. A second group wrote about a time they were ignored, but not explicitly told they were disliked. A third control group recalled a mundane event from the previous day.
After the writing exercise, the participants completed a test designed to measure malevolent creativity. The prompt asked the students to imagine a scenario involving a romantic rival who made them angry. They were instructed to generate as many creative ideas for revenge as possible, regardless of how immoral the ideas might be.
Independent raters scored the anonymous written responses based on three distinct metrics. They measured fluency by counting the number of appropriate ideas generated. They measured originality by looking at the statistical rarity of the ideas compared to the rest of the group. Finally, they assigned a score based on the sheer malevolence or harmfulness of the proposed revenge.
The researchers observed distinct responses from the two socially excluded groups. The rejected group produced a higher quantity of unique ideas, but those ideas were relatively low in actual malice. The ignored group generated fewer ideas with less originality, but their responses scored much higher on the malevolence scale.
A second experiment investigated whether these differences stemmed from a shift in prosocial motivation. The researchers recruited 110 students and used the same memory writing exercise to prime feelings of explicit rejection, being ignored, or a neutral baseline state.
Instead of brainstorming revenge tactics, the participants rated their willingness to donate to a hypothetical curbside fundraiser on a scale from one to seven. This rating served as a proxy for their prosocial motivation. People with higher scores exhibited a stronger drive to act positively toward others.
The results showed that the rejected group reported the highest willingness to donate. The ignored group reported the lowest willingness to donate, falling well below the baseline of the control group. The authors suggest that explicit rejection prompts a desire to reconnect and regain social approval, whereas being ignored triggers self-protective and antisocial tendencies.
The third experiment tested whether prosocial motivation directly alters malevolent creativity. The researchers randomly assigned 67 students to either a control group or a priming group. The priming group wrote a detailed account of a past event where they helped someone, which elevated their prosocial motivation. The control group did not complete a memory writing task.
All participants then completed the same revenge-based brainstorming task used in the first experiment. The researchers scored the answers using the identical three metrics of fluency, originality, and malevolence.
Participants primed with prosocial motivation generated a higher volume of creative ideas, and those ideas were highly original. However, the actual harm intended in their ideas was measurably lower than the ideas produced by the control group.
The researchers concluded that a desire to help others plays a dual role in shaping behavior. A prosocial drive provides the mental energy and persistence needed for creative tasks, elevating fluency and novelty. At the same time, this motivation actively restrains the urge to cause severe harm, leading to a drop in actual malevolence.
The researchers note a few limitations to the experimental design. Measuring malevolent creativity by separating it into distinct facets of fluency, novelty, and malevolence might not fully capture the combined nature of the concept. A single composite score that fuses novelty and harm might provide a more accurate picture of real-world dark creativity.
The experiments also did not directly measure the emotional arousal levels of the participants. Heightened negative emotions might fuel the cognitive persistence needed for creative brainstorming, entirely separate from prosocial motivation. Future studies will need to track multiple emotional and motivational pathways simultaneously to map exactly how social threats translate into aggressive innovation.
The study, “The Impact of Social Exclusion on Malevolent Creativity: The Mediating Role of Prosocial Motivation,” was authored by Junsheng Wu, Xiao Rao, Jiabin Liu, Shuaijun You, Yang Cao, and Lan Jiao.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-rejection-and-neglect-fuel-dark-creativity/
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: The surprising link between prosocial motivation and dark creativity
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-rejection-and-neglect-fuel-dark-creativity/
Being actively rejected and being silently ignored both cause social pain, but they trigger entirely different forms of dark creativity. A recent series of psychological experiments reveals that people who feel ignored generate highly malicious ideas, while those who feel rejected come up with a higher volume of creative ideas that are less harmful. The research was published in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Creativity is usually viewed as a positive trait that drives innovation and problem solving. When people use divergent thinking to materially, mentally, or physically harm others, psychologists refer to this as malevolent creativity. The products of this dark imagination combine harmful intent with novelty, making them dangerous, difficult to detect, and hard to anticipate.
People often resort to malevolent creativity when they face threatening or unfair situations in their daily lives. Social exclusion is one common trigger, causing emotional pain that can lead to antisocial reactions. Psychologists have found that individuals use malevolent creativity as a defense mechanism to cope with social threats.
Not all forms of social exclusion are the same. Explicit rejection is a direct action that threatens a person’s fundamental need to belong to a group. In contrast, being ignored or given the silent treatment is more indirect. This implicit exclusion threatens a person’s sense of control and efficacy. According to psychological models of social behavior, people adjust their responses based on which specific psychological need is threatened.
Psychologist Junsheng Wu and a research team from Ningbo University in China wanted to understand how these distinct social threats shape dark creativity. The researchers suspected that the two types of exclusion would alter a person’s desire to help others, known as prosocial motivation, in entirely different ways. They designed a series of independent experiments to test how this motivation bridges the gap between social pain and creative revenge.
The research team conducted three distinct experiments to establish a chain of cause and effect. In the first experiment, the researchers randomly assigned 120 college students to one of three groups. They asked the participants to spend five minutes writing a detailed account of a specific memory. One group wrote about a time they felt intensely rejected and were told they were not wanted. A second group wrote about a time they were ignored, but not explicitly told they were disliked. A third control group recalled a mundane event from the previous day.
After the writing exercise, the participants completed a test designed to measure malevolent creativity. The prompt asked the students to imagine a scenario involving a romantic rival who made them angry. They were instructed to generate as many creative ideas for revenge as possible, regardless of how immoral the ideas might be.
Independent raters scored the anonymous written responses based on three distinct metrics. They measured fluency by counting the number of appropriate ideas generated. They measured originality by looking at the statistical rarity of the ideas compared to the rest of the group. Finally, they assigned a score based on the sheer malevolence or harmfulness of the proposed revenge.
The researchers observed distinct responses from the two socially excluded groups. The rejected group produced a higher quantity of unique ideas, but those ideas were relatively low in actual malice. The ignored group generated fewer ideas with less originality, but their responses scored much higher on the malevolence scale.
A second experiment investigated whether these differences stemmed from a shift in prosocial motivation. The researchers recruited 110 students and used the same memory writing exercise to prime feelings of explicit rejection, being ignored, or a neutral baseline state.
Instead of brainstorming revenge tactics, the participants rated their willingness to donate to a hypothetical curbside fundraiser on a scale from one to seven. This rating served as a proxy for their prosocial motivation. People with higher scores exhibited a stronger drive to act positively toward others.
The results showed that the rejected group reported the highest willingness to donate. The ignored group reported the lowest willingness to donate, falling well below the baseline of the control group. The authors suggest that explicit rejection prompts a desire to reconnect and regain social approval, whereas being ignored triggers self-protective and antisocial tendencies.
The third experiment tested whether prosocial motivation directly alters malevolent creativity. The researchers randomly assigned 67 students to either a control group or a priming group. The priming group wrote a detailed account of a past event where they helped someone, which elevated their prosocial motivation. The control group did not complete a memory writing task.
All participants then completed the same revenge-based brainstorming task used in the first experiment. The researchers scored the answers using the identical three metrics of fluency, originality, and malevolence.
Participants primed with prosocial motivation generated a higher volume of creative ideas, and those ideas were highly original. However, the actual harm intended in their ideas was measurably lower than the ideas produced by the control group.
The researchers concluded that a desire to help others plays a dual role in shaping behavior. A prosocial drive provides the mental energy and persistence needed for creative tasks, elevating fluency and novelty. At the same time, this motivation actively restrains the urge to cause severe harm, leading to a drop in actual malevolence.
The researchers note a few limitations to the experimental design. Measuring malevolent creativity by separating it into distinct facets of fluency, novelty, and malevolence might not fully capture the combined nature of the concept. A single composite score that fuses novelty and harm might provide a more accurate picture of real-world dark creativity.
The experiments also did not directly measure the emotional arousal levels of the participants. Heightened negative emotions might fuel the cognitive persistence needed for creative brainstorming, entirely separate from prosocial motivation. Future studies will need to track multiple emotional and motivational pathways simultaneously to map exactly how social threats translate into aggressive innovation.
The study, “The Impact of Social Exclusion on Malevolent Creativity: The Mediating Role of Prosocial Motivation,” was authored by Junsheng Wu, Xiao Rao, Jiabin Liu, Shuaijun You, Yang Cao, and Lan Jiao.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-rejection-and-neglect-fuel-dark-creativity/
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DATE: September 11, 2026 at 08:00AM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: The surprising link between prosocial motivation and dark creativity
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-rejection-and-neglect-fuel-dark-creativity/
Being actively rejected and being silently ignored both cause social pain, but they trigger entirely different forms of dark creativity. A recent series of psychological experiments reveals that people who feel ignored generate highly malicious ideas, while those who feel rejected come up with a higher volume of creative ideas that are less harmful. The research was published in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Creativity is usually viewed as a positive trait that drives innovation and problem solving. When people use divergent thinking to materially, mentally, or physically harm others, psychologists refer to this as malevolent creativity. The products of this dark imagination combine harmful intent with novelty, making them dangerous, difficult to detect, and hard to anticipate.
People often resort to malevolent creativity when they face threatening or unfair situations in their daily lives. Social exclusion is one common trigger, causing emotional pain that can lead to antisocial reactions. Psychologists have found that individuals use malevolent creativity as a defense mechanism to cope with social threats.
Not all forms of social exclusion are the same. Explicit rejection is a direct action that threatens a person’s fundamental need to belong to a group. In contrast, being ignored or given the silent treatment is more indirect. This implicit exclusion threatens a person’s sense of control and efficacy. According to psychological models of social behavior, people adjust their responses based on which specific psychological need is threatened.
Psychologist Junsheng Wu and a research team from Ningbo University in China wanted to understand how these distinct social threats shape dark creativity. The researchers suspected that the two types of exclusion would alter a person’s desire to help others, known as prosocial motivation, in entirely different ways. They designed a series of independent experiments to test how this motivation bridges the gap between social pain and creative revenge.
The research team conducted three distinct experiments to establish a chain of cause and effect. In the first experiment, the researchers randomly assigned 120 college students to one of three groups. They asked the participants to spend five minutes writing a detailed account of a specific memory. One group wrote about a time they felt intensely rejected and were told they were not wanted. A second group wrote about a time they were ignored, but not explicitly told they were disliked. A third control group recalled a mundane event from the previous day.
After the writing exercise, the participants completed a test designed to measure malevolent creativity. The prompt asked the students to imagine a scenario involving a romantic rival who made them angry. They were instructed to generate as many creative ideas for revenge as possible, regardless of how immoral the ideas might be.
Independent raters scored the anonymous written responses based on three distinct metrics. They measured fluency by counting the number of appropriate ideas generated. They measured originality by looking at the statistical rarity of the ideas compared to the rest of the group. Finally, they assigned a score based on the sheer malevolence or harmfulness of the proposed revenge.
The researchers observed distinct responses from the two socially excluded groups. The rejected group produced a higher quantity of unique ideas, but those ideas were relatively low in actual malice. The ignored group generated fewer ideas with less originality, but their responses scored much higher on the malevolence scale.
A second experiment investigated whether these differences stemmed from a shift in prosocial motivation. The researchers recruited 110 students and used the same memory writing exercise to prime feelings of explicit rejection, being ignored, or a neutral baseline state.
Instead of brainstorming revenge tactics, the participants rated their willingness to donate to a hypothetical curbside fundraiser on a scale from one to seven. This rating served as a proxy for their prosocial motivation. People with higher scores exhibited a stronger drive to act positively toward others.
The results showed that the rejected group reported the highest willingness to donate. The ignored group reported the lowest willingness to donate, falling well below the baseline of the control group. The authors suggest that explicit rejection prompts a desire to reconnect and regain social approval, whereas being ignored triggers self-protective and antisocial tendencies.
The third experiment tested whether prosocial motivation directly alters malevolent creativity. The researchers randomly assigned 67 students to either a control group or a priming group. The priming group wrote a detailed account of a past event where they helped someone, which elevated their prosocial motivation. The control group did not complete a memory writing task.
All participants then completed the same revenge-based brainstorming task used in the first experiment. The researchers scored the answers using the identical three metrics of fluency, originality, and malevolence.
Participants primed with prosocial motivation generated a higher volume of creative ideas, and those ideas were highly original. However, the actual harm intended in their ideas was measurably lower than the ideas produced by the control group.
The researchers concluded that a desire to help others plays a dual role in shaping behavior. A prosocial drive provides the mental energy and persistence needed for creative tasks, elevating fluency and novelty. At the same time, this motivation actively restrains the urge to cause severe harm, leading to a drop in actual malevolence.
The researchers note a few limitations to the experimental design. Measuring malevolent creativity by separating it into distinct facets of fluency, novelty, and malevolence might not fully capture the combined nature of the concept. A single composite score that fuses novelty and harm might provide a more accurate picture of real-world dark creativity.
The experiments also did not directly measure the emotional arousal levels of the participants. Heightened negative emotions might fuel the cognitive persistence needed for creative brainstorming, entirely separate from prosocial motivation. Future studies will need to track multiple emotional and motivational pathways simultaneously to map exactly how social threats translate into aggressive innovation.
The study, “The Impact of Social Exclusion on Malevolent Creativity: The Mediating Role of Prosocial Motivation,” was authored by Junsheng Wu, Xiao Rao, Jiabin Liu, Shuaijun You, Yang Cao, and Lan Jiao.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-rejection-and-neglect-fuel-dark-creativity/
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