Who Is Most Vulnerable to Social Rejection? The Toxic Combination of Low Self-Esteem and Lack of Negative Emotion Differentiation on Neural Responses to Rejection

• Todd B. Kashdan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Todd B. Kashdan, C. Nathan DeWall

  * E-mail: tkashdan@gmu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Psychology and Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

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• C. Nathan DeWall ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Todd B. Kashdan, C. Nathan DeWall

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Carrie L. Masten,

  Affiliation Center for the Mind and Brain, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Richard S. Pond Jr,

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Caitlin Powell,

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, United States of America

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• David Combs,

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

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• David R. Schurtz,

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Antonina S. Farmer

  Affiliation Department of Psychology and Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

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