After hundreds of hours of work, I finished the paper (almost, I still have to read through it and do the editing, etc., but that can wait until tomorrow). It's not as good as it would have been if I had a month to do it, but at least it's finished. For now. I'll have to work on it again if I try and publish it or use it as thesis/dissertation material. In reality, I never want to see it again. All 60 pages of it can be boiled down to what you see below.

Undergraduate students (n = 162) thought and wrote about a time they were excluded or a time they were accepted. The students rated photos of men and women on 9 dimensions of attractiveness, on anger/aggression, and on the desire to befriend the person in the photo. The students also estimated their ability to attract a mate and rated their degree of agreement with statements about their desire for sexual partners. Compared to the students who wrote about acceptance, the students who wrote about exclusion gave higher ratings on humor, physical strength, social influence, and facial attractiveness, and they gave similar ratings on the other dimensions. The students who wrote about exclusion believed it would be easier to attract a mate and expressed a greater desire for both short-term and long-term sexual partners.

The results paint a pretty nasty picture about what happens to people who are subjected to social exclusion. They show that even remembering a time when you were excluded (and then writing about it) makes you think other people are more attractive, makes you think you're more likely to find a mate, and makes you want to have sex more often.

Turns out, social exclusion is just like beer. Or so I'm told.