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People feel the pain of rejection, exclusion, and loss with some of the same physiological machinery that they use to feel the pain of touching a hot stove, report researchers Geoff MacDonald of the University of Queensland and Mark R. Leary of Wake Forest University. Physical and social pain don't follow the exact same circuitry. Instead, what they have in common is how we feel about them: The emotional experience of physical pain and the emotional experience of social exclusion travel the same wires.
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The Big Hurt
"Heartache" may be more than just a metaphor. People feel the pain of rejection, exclusion, and loss with some of the same physiological machinery that they use to feel the ...
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