By using a lexical decision task, r

By using a lexical decision task, researchers found that femaleparticipants produced larger N400 amplitudes for rejection wordsthan acceptance words in partner prime context (Zayas et al.,2009). Zayas et al. (2009) focused on the early automaticstage processing of cues of partner rejection; however, werecruited a modified self-reference task to explore self-positivityon social interaction dimension. No matter excluded by whom,simply “watching” excluded verbs referenced to self will affectinternal cognition, proving that people are sensitive to exclusioncues (Pickett and Gardner, 2005) and have an interpersonalself-positivity bias.