Social exclusion alters attention and autonomic regulation in adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury (opens in new tab)

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) poses a growing clinical challenge in adolescence, while imagery of NSSI is increasingly embedded in everyday digital life. Prior research indicates that adolescents who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury orient more rapidly toward NSSI-related imagery and report heightened urges to self-injure after viewing such content. What remains unknown is how social stress shapes these attentional biases. In the present study, we tested whether experimentally induced ostra...