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Description: Humans are sensitive for ostracism. Even observing the exclusion of a third-party elicits humans need for affiliation. This promoted “social hunger” can be observed from early development. After being primed with third-party ostracism, preschoolers drew more affiliative pictures (Song, Over, & Carpenter, 2015; 10.1037/a0039176) and showed more affiliative imitation (Over & Carpenter, 2009; 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00820.x). Here we want to investigate the specificity of the increased need for affiliation. It might be that the promoted social hunger is very broad and directed toward any new potential interaction partner (generality hypothesis). However, it is also possible that the need for affiliation is specifically directed toward ingroup members as compared to outgroup members since these offer more promising contacts for future directions (specificity hypothesis). We want to test this two hypotheses in diverse societies since cultural differences in responses to ostracism have been observed (Uskul & Over, 2017; 10.1177/0963721417699300). We will use an opportunity sampling strategy and additionally assess interdependence and independence via ethnographies and Hofstede-Insights (https://www.hofstede-insights.com/).