344 - Handling Rejection
Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships
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Have You Ever Been Broken Up With?
Bad break ups and hot coffee elicited a similar response in the brain, at least as measured by the f mri machines. Previous research had shown that while social rejection hurt, it did not activate parts of the brain associated with physical distress. But this team found that when the emotional pain was awful enough, those parts of thebrain were affected as well. So there's a certain amount here where our social rejection is painful, painful, painful,. And then it gets painful enough that our physical pain receptors start to fire.
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