When a Smile Changes into Evil: Pitfalls of Smiles Following Social Exclusion
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Abstract
People have a fundamental and a critical need to belong. Social exclusion impairs this need and rejectedindividuals must seek to regain acceptance from others. It is known that such individuals show an increasedpreference for smiles. On the other hand, social exclusion sometimes leads to aggression. It is possible that thiscontradiction is modulated by acceptance and the level of control, such that prosocial behavior occurs inresponse to evidence of social affirmation, whereas aggression increases in response to reductions in the level ofcontrol. However, little is known about the impact of smiles without social affirmation, or the interactionbetween the effects of smiles and the level of control. In this study, we investigated the effects of such smiles bymanipulating an excluder’s facial expressions (i.e., neutral and smiling faces) and similarity to the participant(i.e., level of control). We hypothesized that smiling excluders that are similar to the participant would increaseaggression in the participant, presumably because being rejected by a similar partner reduces the level of control.In support of our hypothesis, results indicated that when excluders smiled, increased aggression was directed atthose excluders that were similar to the participant. Our findings imply that a smile of an excluder directed at theperson being excluded is one of the risk factors for aggressive behaviors in the excluded person.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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