Social exclusion can produce harmful affective and cognitive responses that undermine healthy functioning. Physical activity is known to have acute affective and cognitive effects that are adaptive and therefore may mitigate these responses. The purpose of this study was to assess walking as a strategy to reduce the effects of social exclusion on affect and working memory performance. Healthy f...

gradient and is not associated with poverty. There is, however, strong evidence for associations with childhood victimisation and ethnic minority status. Thus, victimised individuals and ethnic minority populations at risk of discrimination and exclusion have higher rates of service use for syndromes that in DSM are conceptualised as psychotic disorder. In addition, these populations also displ...

Converging behavioral evidence suggests that people respond to experiences of social exclusion with both defensive and affiliative strategies, allowing them to avoid further distress while also encouraging re-establishment of positive social connections. However, there are unresolved questions regarding the cognitive mechanisms underlying people's responses to social exclusion. Here, we sought ...