Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
Rudert, S. C., Damp, L. C., Kenntemich, C., Möring, J. N. R., & Büttner, C. M. (2026). Beyond the target: Source motivation and observer attributions in ostracism research. The Journal of Social Psychology, 166(1), 13–25. doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2025.2572646
Book Chapters:
Damp, L. C., O’Dea, M. K., & Rudert, S. C. (in press). Ostracism as social communication: Motives, meanings, and misalignment. In R. T. Hitlan (Ed.), Ostracism and social dynamics: Antecedents, consequences, and interventions. Nova Science Publishers.
Conference Presentations
[Translate to English:] Damp, L. C., & Rudert, S. C. (2026, July). Social exclusion as value communication: Emotional consequences of attributed expendability. In L. C. Damp (Chair), Communicated social worth: Emotional, relational, and structural responses to exclusion [Symposium]. General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Strasbourg, France.
Damp, L. C., Rudert, S. C., O’Dea, M. K., & Zagovora, O. (2026, April). LLM-based content analysis of refugee discourse on Reddit: Comparing attitudes towards Syrian and Ukrainian refugees [Talk]. SCOPE Annual Meeting, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Damp, L. C., & Rudert, S. C. (2026, April). Expendability attributions shape emotional responses to social exclusion [Conference talk]. 98th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, United States.
Damp, L. C., & Rudert, S. C. (2025, November). How attributions shape emotional reactions to ostracism [Conference talk]. ASPO (Associatie van Sociaal-Psychologische Onderzoekers), Maastricht, Netherlands.
Damp, L. C., Rudert, S. C., O’Dea, M. K., & Zagovora, O. (2025, September). Framing migrants and refugees: A computational analysis of Reddit discourse [Conference talk]. Conference Computational Methods in Science Communication Research, Landau, Germany.
Damp, L. C., & Rudert, S. C. (2025, September). Was it me? How attributions shape emotional reactions to ostracism. In L. C. Damp (Chair), Being Left Out: Psychological and Social Processes of Ostracism. Symposium conducted at the 19th Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the German Psychological Society (FGSP), Bochum, Germany.
Damp, L. C., & Rudert, S. C. (2025, August). Not just left out: How norm-based attributions shape emotional responses to social exclusion [Poster presentation]. Summer School Social Connections and Well-Being in the Digital Era (3rd edition), Lake Como, Italy.
Damp, L. C., & Rudert, S. C. (2025, August). Too weak to belong? How expendability shapes the pain of exclusion [Talk]. Workshop for Doctoral Researchers of the Division of Social Psychology of the German Psychological Society, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.
Damp, L. C. & Rudert, S. C. (2025, June). Why exclusion hurts: The role of attribution in emotional responses [Talk]. Trinational Symposium on Societal and Interpersonal Dimensions of Social Exclusion, Frankenstein, Germany. (Organizer)
Damp, L. C., & Rudert, S. C. (2024, September). Left out but right on: How our reactions to ostracism differ when we think we deserve it [Conference talk]. 53rd DGPs Congress/15th ÖGP Conference, Vienna, Austria.
Damp, L. C., & Rudert, S. C. (2024, September). Left out but right on: How our reactions to ostracism differ when we think we deserve it [Talk]. Workshop for Doctoral Researchers of the Division of Social Psychology of the German Psychological Society, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany.
Damp, L. C., & Rudert, S. C. (2024, June). When Exclusion Feels Deserved: Attributional Influences on Reactions to Ostracism [Talk]. Ostracism-Landau-Basel Small Group-Meeting, Wieden, Germany.