She compared the stress response of these participants with the stress response of participants in groups made up of members of the same sex that did not use conversation to make
the participants feel excluded.
The confederates were trained to make the study
participants feel excluded by talking about stereotypically masculine topics (sports, video games and a class in business statistics) or stereotypically feminine topics (shopping, yoga and Pilates, and a class in child development) and by subtly excluding the participants from the conversations.
Not exact matches
But once
participants started talking about the videos they had viewed, it became apparent that those people who watched the magician
felt worse than those who watched the cartoon, and they also
felt more
excluded in the conversation than their peers.
Consequently,
participants felt less
excluded after psilocybin administration than after the intake of a placebo.
Ten
participants were
excluded because at least 10 % of the
FEEL - KJ data was missing.