Abstract: The purpose of this study is investigated whether the concepts of social acceptance and social exclusion can be represented by the internal and external spatial positions. In experiment 1, participants were asked to place acceptance and exclusion words into the inside or outside of the circle. The results showed that participants tended to place acceptance words in circle and place the exclusion words outside the circle. In experiment 2, participants were instructed to categorize words according to whether a social word as quickly and accurately as possible. The results show that response times of acceptance words in the circle significantly shorter than outside the circle, while it was no significantly difference that response times of exclusion words in the circle and outside the circle. In sum, results in the present study suggested that at the level of consciousness, the concepts of social acceptance and social exclusion can be represented by internal and external spatial metaphors. At the level of unconsciousness, there is psychological reality of “social acceptance is internal”, while social exclusion is not necessarily “external”.