Those hurt feelings you had when your high school sweetheart dumped you for the team's quarterback may have registered in your brain just like a scraped knee or a kick to the nuts, according to new research that finds that the brain responds to social rejection in the same way it responds to physical pain. The findings suggest that our need for 'inclusion' (meaning belonging, not today's twisted version) is rooted in our aversion to pain.
Anyone who's been rejected knows it can hurt. Social psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues wondered if the metaphor of emotional pain had corporeal underpinnings.
The rest of the background scientific stuff is in an article here...
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Wait till you're in your seventies, finally financially secure and rejected for being too old. Still hurts and maybe more because you're all out of hopium.
ReplyDeleteI barely recognize the high school me.
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