br Conclusions A greater demand on executive control

Conclusions A greater demand on executive control functions might entail greater difficulties controlling retaliatory responses to negative treatment in the heat of the moment of everyday interactions with peers. In turn, retaliatory responses are likely to provoke excluders, which could elicit new episodes of exclusion and thereby further consolidate a rejected status in the peer group (Sandstrom, 2004). A priority for future research caffeic acid phenethyl ester therefore to further examine longitudinal associations between behavioral reactions to social exclusion, peer status, and different subcomponents of cognitive control (e.g. inhibition, shifting, emotion regulation tasks) to get a better understanding of which executive functions might underlie prosocial reactions to exclusion. Such endeavors can inform research roots could test whether training of executive functions might facilitate adaptive social responses to exclusion, which ultimately could lead to greater acceptance among peers.
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Funding This work was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO; grant number 056-34-010 to E.A.C. and grant number 451-10-021 to B.G.). The funding source had no involvement in: preparation of the article, design of the study, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, writing of the report, or in the decision to submit the article for publication.
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