The “cancel culture” debate is at the forefront of America’s culture wars — one that is becoming a key theme in the presidential campaign. Cancel culture refers to the public condemnation and ...

At 7:50 p.m., they find George at the Bonaventure Metro Station. They talk with him, and George says, “I remember when I was at school, 15 years ago, and a teacher gave me a book but I never finished ...

Recent polls have shown that many white, working-class people in America feel pushed out by society, a reason why many voted for President Donald Trump. Many of these supporters latched onto ...

"Gentlemen, the Pullman Company is ready to sign." With that concession from the company president on August 25, 1937, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters became the first black labor union to win ...

Ages ago, when societies were organized around small villages, a person's security and sense of belonging depended partly on how close they were to the village chiefs and elders. If the village was ...

“Hands up!” The universal symbol of surrender, sign of protest, and signal for self-selection to take action. All of these are integral in stopping the pain of social exclusion. Human beings are built ...

Researchers from the University of Buffalo recently published a study entitled “Does Rejection Still Hurt? Examining the Effects of Network Attention and Exposure to Online Social Exclusion.” The ...

In April 2018, just as they were setting off on a campus tour at Colorado State University, Thomas Kanewakeron Gray and Lloyd Skanahwati Gray (two young men of Mohawk descent; 19 and 17 years old, ...

Childhood greatly influences who we become as adults. If someone felt unloved or unfairly singled out, they often develop ...

New research from the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) has provided a complicated glance into young women’s responses to interpersonal conflict, with retaliation often the answer to rejection and ...

You’ve researched exclusivity—how it explains both the marketing of luxury goods and the creation of exclusionary policies. How are those things related? The basic premise behind both is that people ...

Alex Imas is a professor of behavioral science and economics and Vasilou Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Here, he talks about his research into exclusion and ...