Fun New Finding:

Hurting You Hurts Me Too: The Psychological Costs of Complying With Ostracism

• Much research has documented the harmful psychological effects of being ostracized, but research has yet to determine whether compliance with ostracizing other people is psychologically costly
• Supporting our guiding hypothesis that compliance with ostracizing others carries psychological costs
• Experiment 1 showed that such compliance worsened mood compared with complying with instructions to include others and with receiving no instructions involving inclusion or exclusion...
• Experiment 2 revealed increases in negative affect both when individuals ostracized others and when individuals were ostracized themselves.

(Legate, DeHaan, Weinstein, & Ryan, 2013). Psychological Science.