How the need to belong drives human behavior, with Geoffrey L. Cohen, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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What Is It Like Not to Feel Like I Belong?
The importance of a sense of belonging when it's taken away. The same regions associated with the experience of physical pain are activated when people experience social ostracism. We're wired in such a way to be to feel not just biological threat, but that kind of reputational threat,. When we're ostracized in a way that's biologically really similar to the experience of pain.
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