Introduction and overview / Kipling D. Williams and Steve A. Nida -- Ostracism : being ignored and excluded / Dongning Ren, Andrew H. Hales, Kipling D. Williams -- Alone and impulsive : self-regulatory capacity mediates and moderates the implications of exclusion / Levi R. Baker and Roy F. Baumeister -- Motivational and emotional aspects of interpersonal rejection : twenty-five years of theory and research / Mark R. Leary -- The shared neural substrates of physical and social pain / Kristina Tchalova and Naomi I. Eisenberger -- Acute and chronic physiological consequences of social rejection / Ellie Shuo Jin, Robert A. Josephs -- Only the lonely : the curious case of exclusion and aggression / C. Nathan DeWall, Brian Enjaian, Sarah Beth Bell -- Social exclusion and the self / Cynthia L. Pickett, Yanine D. Hess -- Creating the silence : ostracism from the perspective of the source / Lisa Zadro, Alexandra Godwin, Elena Svetieva, Nisha Sethi, Rose Iannuzzelli, & Karen Gonsalkorale -- Social surrogates and rejection : how reading, watching tv, and eating comfort food can ease the pain of social isolation / Shira Gabriel & Jennifer Valenti -- Rejection in romantic relationships / Danu Anthony Stinson, John G. Holmes, Theresa H. He -- Ostracism from a cross-cultural perspective / Juliette Schaafsma -- Ostracism in children and adolescents / Steve A. Nida and Conway F. Saylor -- Normative exclusion and attraction to extreme groups : resolving identity-uncertainty / Michael A. Hogg & Joseph A. Wagoner -- Workplace ostracism / Sandra Robinson and Kira Schabram -- Social media and ostracism / Peter Vorderer & Frank M. Schneider -- Anthropological aspects of ostracism / Patrik Söderberg & Douglas P. Fry -- Social exclusion research: where do we go from here? / Eric D. Wesselmann, Kipling D. Williams, & Steve A. Nida.