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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 9, 1095-1107 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167203262085

Getting a Cue: The Need to Belong and Enhanced Sensitivity to Social Cues

Cynthia L. Pickett

University of Chicago, cpickett{at}uchicago.edu

Wendi L. Gardner

Northwestern University

Megan Knowles

Northwestern University

To successfully establish and maintain social relationships, individuals need to be sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of others. In the current studies, the authors predicted that individuals who are especially concerned with social connectedness—individuals high in the need to belong—would be particularly attentive to and accurate in decoding social cues. In Study 1, individual differences in the need to belong were found to be positively related to accuracy in identifying vocal tone and facial emotion. Study 2 examined attention to vocal tone and accuracy in a more complex social sensitivity task (an empathic accuracy task). Replicating the results of Study 1, need to belong scores predicted both attention to vocal tone and empathic accuracy. Study 3 provided evidence that the enhanced performance shown by those high in the need to belong is specific to social perception skills rather than to cognitive problem solving more generally.

Key Words: belonging • interpersonal sensitivity • rejection • empathic accuracy


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