How to go from social outcast to team player

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The sting of social rejection can hit hard, and Australian researchers have found that people who are socially excluded and left out tend to work less hard for their teams, even when this meant making personal sacrifices. But the good news is the researchers found that a few simple strategies can help excluded people come back to being team players. They found that hearing from people in a similar situation, giving advice to others, and being empowered to improve the situation, all made excluded people more inclined to work hard for the benefit of the team.

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Organisation/s: The University of Queensland, BetterUp, Inc., USA

Funder: BetterUp, Inc. provided financial support in the form of authors’ salaries (AR, EWC, and GRK) and contractor payments (RFB), along with funds for data collection. Competing interests: The authors of this paper are commercially affiliated with BetterUp, Inc. through employment.

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