<h1>Full paper</h1> ----------------------- The final article appeared as an open-access article in *Human Communication Research*. Please cite as: Lutz, S., Schneider, F. M., Reich, S., Schimmel, M., Oechler, H., & Beinlich, L. (2024). Fictional friends and enemies as first aid after ostracism? Experimentally investigating the potential of para-/orthosocial relationships in belongingness need restoration and emotion regulation. *Human Communication Research.* Advance online publication. [https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqae009][1] ## Online Appendix ## Online appendix to the full paper can be found in the file "Online Appendix.pdf". It is the same file as in the [Supplementary data at the journal's website][2]. It includes - **Appendix A: Pilot Study** 1. Table A1 – bivariate correlations 2. Table A2 – descriptives 3. A3 – Results concerning H1 and H2 - **Appendix B: Study 1** 1. Table B1 – bivariate correlations 2. Table B2 – descriptives - **Appendix C: Study 2** 1. Table C1 – bivariate correlations 2. Table C2 – descriptives 3. Table C3 – mediation models <H1>OSF project</h1> ----------------------- The OSF project includes supplementary material for the pilot study, Study 1, and Study 2. It is connected to the preregistration of Study 2 at [OSF][3]. ## Preregistration ## The pilot study was preregistered at [AsPredicted][4]. Study 2 was preregistered at [OSF][3]. For details on the missing preregistration of Study 1 and the justifaction of Open Science Badges, see [Supplementary data at the journal's website][2]. ## Data & Code ## ### *Root folder* ### Besides the Online Appendix to the full paper and the preregistration, this folder includes the subfolders of each study as well as the reproducible environment (renv) files. ### *Pilot study* ### This subfolder includes - the anonymized dataset of the pilot study, - additional codings of open text fields, - the codebook of the variables, - the sample size rationale, - R Markdown and html output files of the analyses. ### *Study 1* ### This subfolder includes - the anonymized dataset of Study 1, - additional codings of open text fields, - the codebook of the variables, - R Markdown and html output files of the analyses. ### *Study 2* ### This subfolder includes - the anonymized dataset of Study 2, - additional codings of open text fields, - the codebook of the variables, - R Markdown and html output files of the analyses. [1]: https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqae009 [2]: https://academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hcr/hqae009/7668943#supplementary-data [3]: https://osf.io/nz67e [4]: https://aspredicted.org/blind.php?x=2eg6wq