Social exclusion is a very common phenomenon in life. It not only impairs an individual’s
cognitive abilities, but also causes strong negative emotions. After experiencing social exclusion, the
consumption behavior of individuals changes. Based on the theory of relationship needs and performance
needs proposed by Williams (2007), this paper divides the consumption behaviors of excluded people
into two categories, one is relationship compensatory consumption behavior and the other is performance
compensation consumption behavior, which summarizes the research on social exclusion and
consumption behavior of domestic and foreign scholars in recent years.