SOME EFFECTS OF REJECTION UPON ATTRACTION TO A GROUP.

The article examines the attraction as a joint function of the valence of membership in the group and the expectation the membership in the group and the expectation that membership can be attained, which can be expressed as the individual's subjectivity probability of acceptance. It was predicted that for any given degree of rejection, loss of attraction to the group will be smaller when the reason for rejection is invidious than when it is noninvidious on the basis of the hypothesis that invidious rejection would be arouse a need for social reassurance. According to the result, non-invidious condition subjects engaged in significantly less conversation of a personal nature after rejection.