344 - Handling Rejection
Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships
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Rejection May Hurt More Than Feelings
Psychologists found that the same areas in the brain that signify physical pain are activated at moments of intense social loss. They recruited forty people who had recently experienced intense rejection from a break up. And they did mri scans, took pictures of the participants brain activity after each volunteer viewed pictures of their exes or thought out a specific rejection experience with that person. So essentially, just regardless of where you're from, regardless of what your experiences, if you are rejected in some way as a young person, it does matter.
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