Julie Martin

Julie Martin

Duke University

Duke University

Graduate Student

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Published on Jan 29, 2014

Project Update

Hey everyone!Just wanted to update you on the status of the project since it kicked off a few weeks ago. Participation was high in both Survey 1 (pre-recruitment) and Survey 2 (post-recruitment) an...

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Published on Jan 11, 2014

The Project is Underway!

Hi Everyone!The project is finally underway! Thanks to your support, one-hundred and thirty-one participants completed the pre-recruitment survey, and I expect to get even more participants for the...

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Published on Sep 24, 2013

Sorority Exposes Its Rejection of Black Candidate - New York Times

The recent exposure of sororities rejecting black candidates has been in the press lately, but it is certainly not a new phenomenon. Thousands of women are rejected from sororities each year, a...

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Published on Sep 15, 2013

The Science of Social Exclusion

Check this cool video on how exclusion affects our brain and why it hurts: http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2013/9/15/the-science-of-heartbreak-video.html

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Published on Sep 09, 2013

Why Does Rejection Hurt? What Aspects of Sorority Recruitment make Rejection Especially Difficult?

As humans, we are social creatures. We have evolved to be keenly aware of our level of social acceptance and to experience distress when we are being rejected. This distress is adaptive becaus...

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Published on Aug 06, 2013

Sorority Rush in the News

Thousands of women go through sorority recruitment every year, and while the process may seem superficial, the emotions experienced (positive and negative) are real. The intensity of this experien...

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Thanks so much, Craig! I would love to get the word out there about these findings once the official report is finished. Do you have any thoughts on how best to do that?